Create and work for eternity

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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Please take special notice of the fact that God’s Words addressed to us are non-denominational. The contents of the publication by no means intends to attract members of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into any other religious affiliation.

Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God .... accessible to all people. May this Word of God become a blessing to many people.

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

5900 - Value of the divine word....

Two worlds – the earthly world and the spritual realm

5603 - Two different worlds....

7094 - The earthly world is the realm of the adversary....

1812 - The spiritual world.... paradisiacal state....

5336 - My kingdom is not of this world....'

5854 - Acquiring the spiritual kingdom on earth....

7457 - The divine promise: "Seek ye first the kingdom...."

The earthly life – probationary period for the spiritual life

2068 - Earth life - probationary period.... spiritual riches....

4336 - Earth school of the spirit....

5303 - Purpose of earthly life: Change of will and character....

5672 - Test of will on earth.... following Jesus.... connection....

5631 - Create and work for eternity....

Spritual activity must take precedence over earthly activity

5825 - No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world....

3240 - Life.... Awakening the divine spark in the person....

5650 - Spiritual rebirth....

6082 - Value of spiritual and earthly knowledge....

6117 - Rebirth.... Futile life on earth....

Overcoming the material world

5504 - Reason for the spiritual decline Addiction to matter....

5087 - World only means for the purpose.... overcoming matter....

3722 - 'The kingdom of heaven suffers violence....'

5568 - Right directed desire.... (new year)

6571 - Death or life.... Overcoming the world....

Collecting spiritual treasures

3499 - Collecting spiritual treasures.... bogus goods....

4455 - Gathering spiritual treasures on earth.... Regret in the beyond....

4881 - Acquiring spiritual goods.... earthly activity.... idleness....

5325 - Exhortation to gather spiritual treasures on earth....

Decision in earthly life between the spiritual and earthly world

3254 - World and earthly pleasures or spiritual realm....

4526 - Decision between spiritual and earthly world....

5460 - God-inclined will is the passed test on earth....

7030 - Earthly tests of will.... constant struggle....

Right use of the life force to work love

7253 - Right use of the life force: working in love....

2893 - Unselfish labor of love.... right walk before God....

7107 - Acquiring spiritual power through love work....

5843 - Strength of faith.... Healing the sick.... Miracles....

7351 - Change of character into love.... God´s presence....

5314 - Love is the key to the spiritual kingdom....

3788 - ‘Create and work while it is still day....’

Help of Jesus Christ

5640 - The bridge into the spiritual kingdom.... Jesus....

7239 - Conscious detachment from the adversary through Jesus Christ....

7497 - Help of Jesus Christ to walk the earth....

3489 - Leadership....

5838 - Asking the blessing for everything you do....

5839 - Withdraw of strength from the word of God....

6305 - Create and work for eternity....

Vineyard work to remedy spiritual distress

5817 - Great spiritual need calls for busy vineyard work....

4943 - Divine revelations oblige.... near end....

5875 - God's call for workers in the vineyard....

3930 - Receiving the power to work from the divine word....

5785 - Constant contact with God ensures success....

5091 - Spiritual community.... Working together....

4171 - Working for God and His kingdom....

7459 - Fight with the sword of the mouth....

6597 - Relief action on souls beyond....

3931 - Exhortation to work diligently for the kingdom of God....

7433 - "Work while it's still day...."

Right use of the time of grace before the end

7207 - Only a short time of grace left....

6574 - Earthly advancement.... Spiritual decay....

4292 - End of redemption period.... last judgment....

3786 - The great tribulation gives proof of the truth of the divine word....

6404 - "Create and work while it is still day...."

Survival of the soul

7458 - Think often about the hour of death....

5696 - Death of the body beginning of real life....

3666 - Life of the soul - activity....

7343 - The soul’s continuation of life after death....

5602 - Remember the soul after death.... pitiful figures in the afterlife....

Creation and working in the hereafter

7541 - Man determines his own fate....

7656 - The soul will reap what it has sown....

7644 - Spiritual death and renewed banishment....

5554 - The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond....

5609 - Effective medicine of the soul: God’s word....

5624 - Blessed lot and activity in the spiritual realm....

6662 - Redeeming work in the beyond....

1394 - Final destiny create and revive.... union with God....

4291 - Creating and shaping in the kingdom of light.... no man's eye....

5670 - The works of the flesh will be revealed.... Beyond....

8413 - "Work while it is still day.... "

Activity of light beings

3442 - Light beings.... direct call of God....

5811 - Assistance of the light beings for the work of redemption....

8891 - Spiritual help on the way back.... free will....

Aim of the work and activity: childship to god

2419 - Childhood in God....

3352 - Childship to God.... Tremendous suffering on Earth....

5016 - Path to perfection.... childhood of God....

5695 - Direct your senses spiritually....

7096 - Do not forfeit your eternal life....

5814 - Serious warning before the end....

Value of the divine word ....

B.D. 5900 from March 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Nothing earthly is able to replace My word for you, for nothing equals it in value, for My word is a source of strength for your soul which is everlasting .... My word is food and drink from above which shall enable you to return upwards again from whence you came. My word is a spiritual gift which does not benefit the body but only the soul and is therefore not properly recognized by you humans as irreplaceable, as incomparable with earthly goods of all kinds. I Myself address you .... You once voluntarily separated yourselves from Me, yet regardless of this I unite Myself with you again by speaking to you .... you have become weak and imperfect through your separation from Me .... through the connection with Me you can become perfect again, full of strength and realization, because light and strength flow into you through the connection with Me. My word is light and strength, and thus it can be transmitted to you directly by receiving My word, and all weakness, all darkness can fall away from you .... you can become blissfully happy beings again in full possession of light and strength .... but you do not recognize the blessing of My address, the value of My word .... You chase after earthly possessions which only have an apparent value for the short duration of your earthly existence, and you disregard that which brings you eternal advantage because it is spiritual possessions which can never ever perish. You might listen to My word apathetically and with inner resistance if you are still far away from Me .... Yet you could reduce the distance very quickly if you listen to Me attentively and believe that My love for you manifests itself in this word .... You are offered a refreshment for your soul which strengthens it and touches it exceedingly beneficially when it opens itself, when it hungrily and thirstily accepts the bread of heaven which is offered to it by Me Myself. But anyone who has once enjoyed it also knows that there is no substitute for it; everything earthly seems stale and empty to him, and it no longer satisfies him once he has been nourished by Me Myself, once he has drunk from the source of love from which the living water flows. Again and again he will return to the fountain of life because he will not find a substitute anywhere which will give him the same strength and the same light which he can receive from My word .... My word is the bridge, My word is the path which leads to Me; for My word clearly shows it to you .... My word is the connection between Me and you which you need only not interrupt in order to safely reach the aim. For as long as you humans hear My voice, as long as I Myself can speak to you, I am not hidden from you but I prove Myself to you through My word, and you need only follow My word in order to safely reach Me Myself. Yet without My word your path is lightless and dangerous and can lead you into the abyss .... My voice sounds from above and therefore draws you upwards, and no voice of the world can reach you from above but it arises from the abyss and therefore also keeps those in the abyss who respect it .... There is no substitute on earth for My word, and therefore let Me speak to you wherever it may be, so that you can receive what cannot be offered to you earthly .... spiritual goods which are everlasting .... food and drink for your soul, which can only give you true life that lasts for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Two worlds – the earthly world and the spritual realm

Two different worlds ....

B.D. 5603 from February 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

There are two worlds, the spiritual kingdom and the earthly world, and they cannot both be entered at the same time because they are completely opposite and therefore the human being must decide for one of these two worlds. The earthly world is indeed the natural abode of the human being and therefore also appears to the human being as his kingdom to which he has to pay tribute. But the human being's task consists of the soul freeing itself from all impressions of this earthly world, of recognizing its appearance and striving towards the true, of rising into the kingdom which will be its abode after a short time, which is its true home and which offers it what the earthly world can never offer it .... unlimited bliss and eternal life .... The human being should gain this realization on earth that he only temporarily inhabits a world which is transient, a world where everything on it is, as it were, only a pretence, where everything is to be overcome in order to be able to rise freely into the spiritual kingdom which will remain when the earthly world passes away. The recognition of this influences the human being's will and actions and can result in the human being dwelling in the spiritual kingdom even though he still lives on earth. But then he has mentally and willingly renounced the earthly world, for he despises the earthly world as much as he strives for the spiritual world, because it is not possible to strive for both at the same time. They are two different kingdoms .... And their lords are also completely opposite, for the earthly world certainly arose through God's will, yet all creations still belong to God's adversary according to their spiritual nature, and this spiritual substance, which is bound in the works of creation, shall be liberated from its control. The final liberation shall be accomplished by the human being himself by voluntarily detaching himself from everything belonging to earth, by turning his desire away from the things of the earthly world and turning it towards the spiritual kingdom, thus consciously striving towards the kingdom of God. However, this striving first requires the recognition of the worthlessness of all earthly things, it requires faith in a God Who is perfect and in His love wants to prepare a blissful fate for His living creations, and thus it also requires the human being's love for God, otherwise God and His kingdom would not be striven for .... It presupposes a degree of knowledge .... And this shall be made possible for people through the transmission of the divine word, for the human being must first be informed of his task in earthly life before he can make any kind of decision. The human being certainly stands in the midst of the earthly world and yet he should strive towards the spiritual kingdom. God helps him in every way to become free from the earthly world, yet anyone who clings to earth and its goods will never seek the path upwards, he will also never want to and be able to separate himself, for he still allows himself to be held by the lord of the world, he does not direct his gaze upwards and therefore remains bound, even though he feels free as long as he stays on earth. But once he has to take the path into the spiritual kingdom as soon as the earthly world closes itself to him at the time of his physical death .... But then he will find nothing to replace what he has given up; the kingdom of light will not accept him, for he is not suitable for it, he will always be drawn back to earth, and even there he will no longer be accepted .... he is in the spiritual kingdom but in unspeakable torment and darkness because he did not use earthly life to strive for light and life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The earthly world is the realm of the adversary ....

B.D. 7094 from April 16th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Since the earthly world is My adversary's kingdom he also has a certain right in it which will not be curtailed by Me but which you humans yourselves can dispute if you don't bow to his will. For he seeks to influence your will precisely through the world, through everything that is connected with matter .... He seeks to increase your greed for matter, he influences you through matter by presenting it to you so enticingly that you strive to possess it .... I do not deny him his action and his intention because he still has a right to you who once voluntarily followed him to the abyss .... But you can resist him, you can resist all temptations if you are serious about becoming free from him and successfully completing your earthly path .... For he cannot force your will, you can decide for yourselves in utmost freedom, and you should use this freedom correctly, you should recognize the world as his kingdom and seek to escape from him. For I will always help you to do so if it is your earnest will .... And thus you can never release yourselves from the responsibility towards your soul, because you alone decide whether My adversary retains power over you or you become free from this power. He cannot force you, and I likewise do not use coercion, neither towards you nor towards him .... But to the same extent as he tries his arts of seduction on you I am also willing to provide you with gifts of grace, so that it is therefore certainly possible for you to resist him. And if people's current spiritual state is so low, if their thinking is only materially oriented and all their thoughts and aspirations are only directed towards the attainment of earthly goods, then this is solely attributable to people because they voluntarily comply with My adversary's wishes although they could nevertheless resist him .... Again and again it is freedom of will which determines every person's spiritual state, but which is not taken away from him as long as he stays on this earth as a human being. But through his freedom of will, through the misuse of his will, he can get so far that his will is bound again, that he is placed into the state of complete bondage again, which is exceedingly agonizing .... that he himself becomes matter, which he aspired to during his earthly change. Then the adversary will certainly have won the victory by preventing the return to Me, but he will only have delayed it, and the spiritual substance, which he believed to gain for himself through his influence, will again be withdrawn from his power and influence. And that also means weakening of himself again for an infinitely long time. My kingdom is not of this world .... These words should tell you humans most clearly what to think of the earthly world .... if you are at all interested in taking possession of My kingdom one day. But precisely the worldly people, the materialists, are satisfied with the possession of this world, they don't strive for a spiritual kingdom, for they are already completely under the spell of the lord of this world, even though they don't accept him as a being by whom they are influenced. For he strikes them with complete blindness, he prevents them from even the faintest light of realization, he lights blind lights for them which make it impossible to see a true light .... And I will not stop his activity, after all, it concerns the free decision of will which the human being is supposed to make on earth .... My means of help, however, could contribute towards a change of will, for they mainly consist of making people aware of the transience of matter, of repeatedly depriving them of their possessions in order to induce them to strive for imperishable possessions .... which is why again and again events will occur in the last days which will very clearly point people to the worthlessness of what the world offers. For I will not refrain from anything that can still help people, I will do everything to save them from the fate of a new banishment, the significance of which people don't know and also don't believe when the knowledge is conveyed to them. And therefore much will still happen before the last day comes, which will then also irrevocably decide the fate of all people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The spiritual world .... paradisiacal state ....

B.D. 1812 from February 15th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

The death of the body is the conclusion of life on earth and the beginning of life in eternity. These are two fundamentally different worlds .... The one, which belongs to the past and is also transient in itself, i.e. in constant change, is the world of God's visible and tangible works of creation .... a world that is matter in contrast to the world beyond, where material creations do not exist but are only imagined by imperfect beings until the moment of final overcoming. The body of flesh required earthly, i.e. material, creations, as it itself was also such a creation. However, as soon as the outer shell of flesh falls away and the soul passes over into the spiritual realm, it is completely independent of visible works of creation, provided it has reached a certain degree of maturity. The present world is a world of desires .... Every soul finds what it desires, and thus life in eternity will be a paradisiacal state for the human being, provided that the soul wishes to dwell in paradise. For it can also desire that which is still very humanly earthly. But then the state cannot be called paradisiacal, for earthly desires eliminate such a state. In higher spheres, however, earthly-material things are no longer desired but are regarded as belonging to the past, and instead only spiritual good is sought. Spiritual good, however, are for the first time the currents of power which the being in eternity perceptibly feels and recognizes as necessary for higher development and longs for. In this world nothing is tangible or physically visible, but only visible to the spiritual eye, i.e. everything consists of ethereal substances, it is only recognizable in the life of feeling .... the degree of love of the being will, as it were, determine the spheres which are now the soul's new abode. For when the soul is willing, it also receives, and now receiving and giving is a blissful activity for the being. It does not desire something tangible, but only something delicious, which is expressed in the life of sensation. And thus life in eternity is a constant influx and distribution of divine strength, only spiritual things are desired and received and the emotional life is developed to an unimaginable depth, so that bliss can take on ever greater proportions, thus there is neither a standstill nor a decline in what is the epitome of eternal life .... of eternal glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

My kingdom is not of this world ....'

B.D. 5336 from March 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My kingdom is not of this world .... Therefore pay only little regard to the earthly world, only let it affect you as far as your earthly task in life requires, but constantly strive for My kingdom which can be found beyond the material world. My kingdom is the kingdom which lasts forever, whereas the earthly world vanishes with the death of your body; but you can already possess My kingdom on earth if you turn away from the pleasures and commodities of the world and raise your thoughts to Me, if you send them into infinity, questioning Me and opening yourselves up for My reply. Then you already enter the spiritual kingdom which will be your abode one day, then the spiritual kingdom will be of greater value to you than the earthly world, and then you will also receive the wealth which belongs to this kingdom but which cannot be physically received by you. My kingdom is not of this world .... Understand that I want to call you into this world with these Words, which is your true home and which also wants to admit you again after the death of your body. My kingdom is the realm of light, which you will only be able to enter if you have become receptive to light, if you aspired on earth for My kingdom and thus became aspirants for the kingdom which belongs to Me and wherein you may behold Me one day.

These Words of Mine clearly allow you to understand that you should not ardently desire the earthly kingdom, but that you must rise above it if you want to be admitted into My kingdom .... I want to explain the difference to you, I want to tell you that this world does not belong to Me but that My adversary is its master and that I thus place My kingdom in opposition to the earthly world .... I want to entice you over into My kingdom because I want to give you what the material world does not offer .... an eternal life in bliss.

Earth is the valley of suffering and tests; it is the place where imperfect human beings are meant to become perfect. Nevertheless, the earth is not a permanent abode; it is just a stage of development of extremely short duration compared to eternity. And the human being himself, his earthly material cover, is transient; it only serves the soul, which ought to achieve higher development, as a temporary abode. Only then will the soul enter the spiritual kingdom which is everlasting but which can still be My adversary's realm if the soul has not achieved spiritual progress on earth, and thus will enter the kingdom of darkness ....

Yet you shall strive for My kingdom, the spiritual kingdom in which I Am King and Ruler, where only light and happiness exist, where I Myself give in order to delight all who have entered My kingdom .... Therefore pay only little regard to the earthly world, strive for the kingdom which reveals to you splendours which you humans could not dream of, the kingdom whose splendours I have promised you with the Words 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the things which I have prepared for those who love Me ....'

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Acquiring the spiritual kingdom on earth ....

B.D. 5854 from January 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

My kingdom is not of this world, but it can only be acquired in this world .... For if you want to become children of God, if you want to be able to take up your father's inheritance, thus to rule and reign with Me in My kingdom, you have to acquire the right in this world, for at first you are My living creations who still have to gain your childship. Earth is not the kingdom which you should take possession of forever, but My kingdom is the spiritual world which is permeated by My light of love, which offers bliss without number and which is your true home .... The fact that you have to acquire the right on this earth to eternally inhabit this kingdom of My light is the result of the fact that you once voluntarily left this kingdom of Mine and that it can therefore only be returned to you if you prove yourselves in a test of will .... And this test of will has to be passed on earth, in the midst of temptations of all kinds, in the midst of a kingdom which is your task to overcome but which you may never make the aim of all your wishes and endeavours, otherwise you will lose your right to My kingdom again and remain bound by the lord of this world for a long time, whose creations are all bearers of the spiritual substances which still belong to him. It is his world, although he has no power over any earthly creation .... yet all creations are shells of the spiritual substance which once fell away from Me and which I want to enable to become free again and one day enter the spiritual kingdom. But you humans on earth should strive for something higher, you should certainly walk through earth as a training station but with the success of maturity for My kingdom, which will then make you unspeakably happy. As long as you are without realization of your actual earthly task, the earthly world may well be desirable to you, yet again and again you will be reminded that you have a task to fulfil on earth .... If you now pay attention then you will also certainly attain realization, and if you then want to do the right thing, if you want to fulfil the will of the one Who gave you life, then you will also strive for My kingdom and overcome the earthly world, for it costs overcoming all your earthly desires .... it is a battle you have to wage against yourselves, and My kingdom can only be seized by force, My kingdom is to be acquired, thus something has to be exchanged for it .... something must be given away which belongs to this world; the soul must voluntarily part with it in order to then receive something far more delicious .... spiritual goods which secure its entrance into My kingdom and signify inestimable wealth for the soul .... Nevertheless, I do not make too great demands on you, and it is possible for every individual to become an aspirant of My kingdom, which is not of this world .... For I help you as soon as you sincerely want to become My children .... I help you because I love you and want you all to become blissfully happy, and because only My kingdom can grant you these beatitudes. I help you because I want you to return to your father's house as My children and, united with Me, can now work in bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The divine promise: "Seek ye first the kingdom ...."

B.D. 7457 from November 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be given unto you ...." I gave you this promise because I knew that the world with all its demands will push itself forward in your earthly life and that there is a great danger that you will forget My kingdom for the sake of the earthly world and not remember your actual purpose of earthly life .... I knew that the world will exert greater influence on you and that you therefore have to be admonished again and again not to forget My kingdom, which is not of this world. And therefore I have given you the promise that everything you earthly need will be given to you if only you first seek My kingdom and its righteousness .... if you first strive to fulfil My will and thus place My kingdom before this earthly world .... Then you shall also be relieved of earthly worry, for then you will fulfil your purpose of earthly life, you will place your soul's salvation in the foreground and consciously live your existence as a human being, always with a view to Me and My kingdom, which is not of this world. And it is also very easy to understand that you can live carefree through your earthly life if your thoughts are always anchored to Me, if I am closer to you than the world, if you want to do everything and live in accordance with My will, as it is righteous before My eyes. Then you will recognize your father in Me, and then the right relationship will be established between you and Me, and then I will also be able to provide for you as a father provides for his children .... with everything you need for earthly life. And earthly life would truly be easy for you .... But who takes this promise of Mine seriously? Who seriously believes in a 'divine' provision, who believes that God also takes care of people in a purely earthly way who give Him priority over the world? Many daily worries would be unnecessary if this promise were respected, if people made it their business to strive for Me and My kingdom .... more spiritually than earthly, for then I will truly provide for all your physical and earthly needs, and no human being will need to suffer hardship who 'seeks My kingdom and its righteousness ....' Therefore you should not worry about what you eat and what you drink and wherewith you clothe yourselves, but you should leave this to My care, Who truly knows what you need and what will not harm your spiritual well-being either. Leave everything to Me, your soul and your body, so that I will give them what serves them. For I love you and will truly not withhold anything from My children which they need in order to keep their soul and body in a state which does not become a torment for them but guarantees constant spiritual progress. All I ask in return is that you remember Me and strive to attain My kingdom, which is 'not of this world' and can therefore only be believed until it is entered by your soul after your death and becomes a reality. But as long as you stay on earth My kingdom cannot be proven to you. And yet you should seek it with all the strength of your heart .... For your soul feels that it has not yet found its true home on this earth, and therefore it should 'seek' its home, it should let its thoughts wander into the area where I am lord and father of the house, and the serious search for My kingdom will also earn it fulfilment, it will long for it spiritually and physically and know itself to be secure in the father's heart, Who has given it this promise: "Seek My kingdom and its righteousness, everything else will fall to you ...." it will no longer worry about its daily needs if it only believes and trusts, for My word is eternal truth and every promise is fulfilled as well as the conditions I have attached to it are fulfilled .... But anyone who desires the world and does not think about My kingdom, or thinks about it only a little, will also have to worry himself about the preservation of the body, for the promise does not apply to him because he puts the world first and thus is also a slave to the one who is master of this world .... And his worries about the preservation of the body will not cease, they will chain him ever more to the world, and much time will pass until he has overcome the world, if he succeeds at all in separating himself from it during earthly life, that is, in overcoming matter and turning towards the spiritual kingdom. For until he seeks My kingdom with his righteousness he is still a slave to the world, and it will not release him so easily unless his will is exceedingly strong and turns away and the human being reveals that he can only attain beatitude if he seeks My kingdom, which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The earthly life – probationary period for the spiritual life

Earth life - probationary period .... spiritual riches ....

B.D. 2068 from September 12th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

You only stay on earth for a short time and in this short time you have to decide which life you want to lead in eternity. For your life on earth is decisive for eternity. It is only a trial existence, and it is up to you alone whether you pass the test, whether you use earth life in such a way that it earns you a life in all splendour in the spiritual kingdom or your fate there is a sad one. What you decide in favour of in earthly life will be granted to you after death. Thus every human being will then reap the reward for the work he has done on earth. Earthly labour will already find its reward on earth and will therefore not be valued for eternity. Only spiritual work will bring eternal success, for the soul will take spiritual possessions with it into the spiritual kingdom, whereas earthly work and its reward will remain on earth when the soul departs. And anyone who has nothing to show in terms of spiritual possessions has not passed the test, he has not utilized his earthly life, he has been inactive in a spiritual sense even though he was rich in worldly possessions on earth. He did not realize the purpose of his earthly life and therefore did not live consciously. The purpose of life on earth is to mature spiritually. But if earthly abilities are trained and only value is placed on how man can acquire earthly wealth, then the probationary period passes without bringing realization to man. However, the failed earthly existence can never be made up for, and what a person has failed to do on earth can hardly be made up for in the hereafter. The remorse in the hereafter is indescribable when the soul finds itself poor and meagre where it could experience a bright and radiant entry into the spiritual kingdom. Time and again the human being is informed of his task and his goal, but the words go unheard in people's ears because they are not aware of the consequences of their negligence. As long as they live, they do not think about their task, but in the hereafter they regret every minute they let pass by unused ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earth school of the spirit ....

B.D. 4336 from June 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Consider the earth as a school of the spirit, as an educational station for eternal bliss, consider Me as your teacher Who cares about your education, Who wants to shape you into mature, perfect creatures so that they can be active themselves in shaping what is still imperfect and therefore unhappy. Do not regard the earth as an end in itself but as a means to an end with all its creations, which are only the will that has become form and the sign of My great love for you and which are meant to help the imperfect being to attain perfection. And know that you, having emerged from My strength, remain eternally united with Me, that you, as a part of Me, can never ever be rejected by Me, but that you must be perfect if you want to be active with Me and in My will. And if you now look at creation with Me in mind, consider that the whole of creation exists for you but that you yourselves are the centre of this creation .... the most highly developed work of creation endowed with intellect and free will and that you, as living creations, are constantly in contact with your creator. Although the world appears large to you, you are the life in this world, for you embody the spiritual being which stands at the end of the earthly course as beings cared for by My love, which I want to draw over into the spiritual kingdom, which I want to make happy with My constant nearness. I do not leave one of these beings to its fate, not one needs to do without My care and love, every single creature can feel safe under My protection and bask in the rays of My grace. But it has to make use of earthly life, otherwise it will prolong the time of its earth-boundness, otherwise endless times can pass until it is mature for the spiritual kingdom, until it can dwell in the light, in My nearness and be blissfully happy. Earth is the school of the spirit, therefore this must be taken into account, i.e. the spirit must first be given the opportunity to develop, it must be given the opportunity to reveal itself to the soul, so that the human being will now live in accordance with My will .... he must be instructed so that he becomes suitable for eternity. But he can constantly receive the instructions, for My love will consider people such that they will be able to fulfil their earthly task if only they have the will to do so. And thus I will present them with knowledge which completely corresponds to the truth and which will let them mature on earth if they accept it and use it accordingly. I Myself will train your spirit, for it is part of Me and establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit if you don't resist and let Me Myself take effect in you. And thus you receive My word through the working of the spirit as a sign of My love and as a means to your perfection. I Myself speak to you, and if you listen to Me you will inevitably ascend, you will recognize what you once were, what you are and what you shall become, you will successfully complete the school of the spirit and be able to leave earth as beings of light and enter My kingdom and you will eternally thank Me for this school which shapes you into perfect beings again, which you were from the very beginning .... children of your father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose of earthly life: Change of will and character ....

B.D. 5303 from January 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You humans have to go through a process of revival or you will be unsuitable for the spiritual kingdom, for the spheres of light. This means that you humans, the way you are in earthly life, don't have the necessary maturity to reside in the kingdom of light. You need a completely different attitude in order to become an acceptable occupant of the spiritual kingdom, and you are meant to achieve this state on earth, which is indeed possible. Hence you have to go through a certain process of transformation, and you have to undertake it of your own accord.

Your character cannot be forcibly changed, thus your state at the end of your earthly life is determined by yourselves, and corresponding to your willingness to change your soul will leave your body .... either receptive to light or still surrounded by dense layers which cannot bear any emanation of light .... But who knows this, which person ponders this when he is informed of it and takes changing his character seriously? ....

Every person has to refine himself, he has to discard faults, weaknesses and bad habits and teach himself humility, gentleness, peacefulness, patience, compassion; every person has to shape himself into love in order to combine all these virtues within himself, then he will have shaped himself such that he can be admitted into the kingdom of light, then his nature will be deified, then he will have adjusted himself to My fundamental nature and thereby will have enabled Me Myself to enter into union with him, for everything that had separated us will have been consciously removed. The transformation of his character is the path which leads to Me, he will have achieved his earthly goal and discarded the last heavy cover as soon as he leaves his body in order to then live eternally as a blissfully happy spiritual being. Only then will the real life begin .... Let these words come alive in you: Real life begins for you when you enter the kingdom of light .... Everything prior to this has only been the ladder, the preparation time for the actual life which, however, has to be acquired during this preparation time. You humans eagerly and undauntedly work for earthly life since you consider this alone important, and you regard it as an end in itself. Yet you do not consider the actual life because you do not believe in a continuation of life after the death of your body.

Oh, you are fools .... Your purpose of life is an entirely different one than just working for your body's well-being. You are informed of this time and again yet you don't believe it, and therefore you don't change your character either, and that is your downfall .... For if you are not suitable to enter the kingdom of light, but I neither can nor want to destroy you since you originated from Me, you will have to carry out your transformation elsewhere, and that can also mean a great fall and a gradual ascent corresponding to My eternal plan, if the opportunity of attaining maturity in the beyond is not available to you .... Sooner or later you will have to undertake this change of character in the stage of a human being, not even My love can release you from this. The stage of a human being is, however, the final stage in an incredibly long process of development through all creations on earth. As a human being you will have to accomplish a conscious change of will and character if this process of development is to reach a successful end with your physical death on earth .... Then your earthly course of life will irrevocably come to an end ....

Nevertheless, progress can continue in the spiritual realm, the soul can still recognise its wretched state in the spiritual kingdom and try to improve itself, but this necessitates much help from the beings of light or through human intercession. But the being can also slide down again into the deepest abyss because it did not recognise and try to change itself .... Then it will have to accept an appalling fate in order to join the process of change after an infinitely long time again, when it has to prove itself once again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Test of will on earth .... following Jesus .... connection ....

B.D. 5672 from May 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Only in union with Me will you find your bliss .... You once voluntarily separated yourselves from Me and thereby became blissfully unhappy, you must voluntarily return to Me in order to also be placed into the state of beatitude, which can therefore only be found in the union with Me. Nothing can replace what you find in Me and with Me, and therefore every striving in a different direction is an idle run for your soul which is only held up on the path to perfection, which only prolongs its return to Me as soon as it strives towards a different aim than unification with Me. I alone want to be your aim, because I alone can give you the beatitude which you have lost through your own fault. Therefore, all My care will be to turn your will towards Me, I will always guide you or arrange your destiny such that you will be urged to take refuge in Me .... yet always respecting your free will. But because your will itself is decisive there is also the danger that you will direct it wrongly, that you will strive for something else and thus delay your return to Me. For My adversary likewise tries to determine your will, even though he cannot forcefully influence you. He always presents you with other aims which you should pursue in order to distract you from the only right aim .... But you will hardly reach your aim by detours. Your time on earth as a human being will pass quickly, you are only granted a short period of time during which you can achieve the final unification with Me, and as soon as you don't use this short time wisely it will be lost for you. Through Jesus Christ the path has been clearly shown to you humans where you can attain complete unification with Me; you only need to take the path of following Jesus in order to safely reach Me, yet you must consciously travel this path, you must stretch out your hands towards Me so that I can grasp you .... Hence you must mentally enter into contact with Me through heartfelt prayer and receive the strength from Me through a life of love, which now already proves the entered connection with Me. Only in this way can you reach your aim on earth, only in this way will you fulfil your earthly task, only in this way will you consciously turn your will over to Me and be accepted by Me. Your earthly life is only intended to test your will, which once turned away from Me and towards My adversary and which should now detach itself from him and fully surrender to Me again .... You should enter into direct contact with Me .... Do you understand what I ask of you? That I alone want to fill your heart, that you should prepare it for Me alone, that I want to be your lord and king, that I cannot tolerate any foreign gods next to Me to whom you turn your thoughts, because then they will always stand in the way of a complete union with Me, for I want to possess your undivided love, your undivided heart and your will. Once you were supposed to decide between Me and My adversary, but you followed him in blind love and left Me. So you should now leave everything on earth and follow Me alone .... then you will pass your test of earthly life, you will direct your will correctly and acquire the right to eternal beatitude again. And because your past apostasy from Me was due to the fact that you were unable to see Me, because I wanted to make the path of return to Me easy for you, I Myself became visible to you in Jesus Christ, so that you should now love Him and strive towards Him and thereby profess Me, Who embodied Myself in Jesus Christ in order to be a visible God for you humans, to Whom you can now give all your love and acquire His love, Who wants to receive you into His kingdom in order to prepare eternal bliss for you, which you can only enjoy in complete union with Me ....

Amen

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Create and work for eternity ....

B.D. 5631 from March 20th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You should create and work for eternity, not for the short time of earthly life, which you yourselves cannot extend by one day and which was only given to you to work for eternity. The human being without any knowledge of his purpose of earthly life and his destiny only sees earthly life, his physical well-being and his earthly position as most important, and for this he lives and strives, and he only creates for death, for he cannot stop his physical death as well as the death of his soul because he has not awakened the soul to eternal life. The fate of a person's soul, however, is different if he has made use of his earthly life in accordance with his task and purpose .... He will not die eternally and his life will be a life of bliss. And yet, both people were on this earth who were meant to achieve the same aim and were able to do so, for God approached both of them because He does not disregard any of His creations, because He considers all of them in such a way that they can achieve the same aim if only they are willing. But God does not force the will .... Create and work for eternity. Every person can do this, even if the earthly world approaches him and demands its tribute from him .... Every person can direct his thoughts towards the future, every person can and will sometimes deal with his death and then questions will arise in him which he himself is unable to answer. Every person should ask himself these questions and he will be enlightened. For God wants man to know what is right, the truth, and He will never withhold it from a man who desires it. But if a person claims to have remained without any indication of his further life, this is an untruth, or it only proves that the person has rejected every thought of death and the afterlife which arises in him, thus closing himself off to any enlightenment about it. The earthly world and its successes fill his thoughts, and he has suppressed every spiritual thought and thereby made himself completely incapable of being spiritually instructed. Thus he only creates for this life and yet knows that he gives up everything with the moment of bodily death .... and yet the striving for earthly goods fills his entire thinking. But spiritual goods appeal to very few people, for they are something unreal to them during earthly time and therefore little desirable. But anyone who is concerned with his death and the soul's continuation of life recognizes the transience of earthly goods and therefore seeks to gain possession of spiritual goods. He uses earthly time in such a way that it earns him eternal life, he creates and works for the life of the soul, which cannot eternally pass away and yet has to live in order to be happy. Only a life of the soul is bliss, but the death of the soul is something so agonizing because the soul does not lose the awareness of its existence and therefore also feels its powerless, dark state as greatest agony. And yet people cannot be compelled to improve their state of soul .... They must be free to decide how they want to use their earthly life; they must be able to decide for themselves whether they want to live or cause their soul's death. Yet as long as they live on earth they will be referred to their physical death, which can bring their soul eternal life but also death according to their will ....

Amen

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Spritual activity must take precedence over earthly activity

No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world ....

B.D. 5825 from December 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

To pay tribute to the world is to forfeit the kingdom of heaven, since the human being cannot gain both at the same time. And anyone who pays homage to the world will not endeavour to attain the heavenly kingdom either, for he will only recognise the earthly world and its attraction and not believe in a kingdom beyond this world. And yet the path to the kingdom of heaven has to be taken through this earthly world, it cannot be avoided, for the human being lives in this world, he has to cover the last stage of his development on earth, in the midst of the realm which belongs to God's adversary. But he can overcome this kingdom, he can pass through the earthly world without allowing himself to be extraordinarily impressed by it, without coveting it with his senses .... he can experience it and yet be its master ....

And it is your task to overcome the world, for it was given to you as a means for your soul to become fully mature therein, to detach itself voluntarily from everything pertaining to the world, because this separation is at the same time also a separation from the one who is lord of this world, and a turning towards the spiritual kingdom and its Lord. Hence it is understandable that anyone enslaving himself to the world will never be able to take possession of the spiritual kingdom, neither in earthly life nor after the human being's death .... it is understandable that the lord of the world will keep him tied up because the human being gives him the right to do so himself, for the separation from his power, the separation from the material world, has to be endeavoured towards and accomplished by the individual himself.

He has to wage battle against himself; he has to be able to go without in order to gain something valuable, he has to resist all temptations during his short lifetime on earth in order to then take possession of the spiritual kingdom with all its glories, which will compensate him a thousand fold for his renunciation on earth .... And he will only do so if he recognises the irrelevance and impermanence of what he deems desirable on earth. Only this realisation will give him the strength to change his will correctly, and he can gain this realisation by merely contemplating the material world  .... For he cannot be forced to change his will .... he can only be prompted by experiences into inner contemplation, at which point the result is up to him. And God can only help him by time and again demonstrating the fleeting nature of things, so He allows the destruction of what the human being loves on earth, He intervenes by affecting him painfully, taking from him what his heart is set on .... just to point out to him how worthless the goals of his endeavours are.

But those who learn from such experiences can consider themselves fortunate, for they will gradually change the direction of their will and relinquish the world in order to occupy the spiritual kingdom one day .... But no one should believe that he can make compromises, no one should believe that he can pay homage to the world with impunity .... All striving will have an effect after his death, and if it related to the world then it will result in spiritual death, then he will have relinquished the spiritual kingdom for the sake of earthly gain and the world will have brought him death .... Then he will have handed himself over again to the power of the one in the abyss, and the path of ascent will yet again take an infinitely long period of time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Life .... Awakening the divine spark in the person ....

B.D. 3240 from September 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The divine spiritual spark in the human being is his actual life, consequently, one can only speak of rebirth when the spirit in the human being has been awakened, when it can start to become active and thus the spiritual life begins .... In that case the human being is spiritually reborn, for his physical birth only makes sense and serves its purpose when spiritual rebirth has taken place. The divine spiritual spark has consciously been acknowledged by the person's soul even if the person is not yet able to rationally differentiate between the two concepts of soul and spirit. For the process of unification of spirit and soul can happen without a person's knowledge, since this is only conveyed to him when it occurred. Only then will the spirit explain to the soul what the unity of the spirit with the soul means, and only then will the soul strive towards ever closer union with its spirit and will accept the most valuable knowledge from it. And from then on the human being will be alive, that is, he will utilise his knowledge and consciously work for the kingdom of God; he will eagerly work at distributing the obtained information and at imparting the knowledge to his fellow human beings .... Life is continuous activity .... Admittedly, the human being is certainly physically alive without having awakened his indwelling spiritual spark, that is, he is active in an earthly way and thus works for his earthly life, for his body and for earthly goals. But this is not the true life, the life which is everlasting, the life Jesus had spoken about and which He promised to anyone who believes in Him .... True life is the never-ending life of the spirit, the attainment of which is the purpose of life on earth. This purpose will only be achieved when the human being's spirit has come to life.

Spiritual rebirth is the most worthwhile goal to strive for, because it will yield indescribable gain for the human being's soul. That which is offered by the earth is impermanent and only benefits the body but never the soul. In contrast, what the spirit offers the soul will refresh it and quench its thirst, it is its nourishment, thus it is strength for living; it is a precious commodity which can no longer perish, which induces happiness and encourages diligent activity and therefore can be called the elixir of life, because death, which previously had threatened the soul and would be its inevitable share had rebirth not taken place, will no longer be possible. The carnal body is the shell which harbours the divine spark and it is up to the person's free will as to whether he bursts the shell, whether he strives to awaken the Divine within himself to life. If the soul, the bearer of the will, turns towards the divine spirit by trying to penetrate the shell, by trying to liberate itself from all earthly wishes, from bad habits and vices, if it tries to dissolve the shell through activity of love, the divine spiritual spark will start to move, it will make contact with the human being's soul, it will help it rise above itself, it will constantly whisper advice and instructions and thus guide the soul as soon as it allows itself to be guided. From then on the divine spark in the person will take the lead and this will truly be right .... Then the spirit and soul will no longer oppose each other but pursue their goal together .... they will strive towards the eternal home and pay no attention to the body, the earth and everything of an earthly nature, even though the human being still lives on earth. The human being is alive, even if earthly matters are of no further interest to him, for his spirit is alive and is constantly active. The human being only works for the spiritual kingdom, for the kingdom of God, he works at improving himself and his fellow human beings, he is incessantly active, for the indwelling spiritual spark will not allow him to rest, that is, to rest idly, as it is harmful and synonymous with death .... with a state which is painful in eternity and should therefore be feared as the worst fate that can befall the human soul. However, once the spirit has come alive then death will no longer exist, for the spirit is immortal and also draws the soul into eternal life, into everlasting glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual rebirth ....

B.D. 5650 from April 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You humans ought to strive towards spiritual rebirth, for eternal life is only assured to you when you are born again. Your natural birth is merely a process necessary in order to facilitate the soul's path towards rebirth. Your soul must be born again, it must step out of the state of lifelessness into a state of life, it must step out of its shell and be born anew, thus it should enter a hitherto unfamiliar sphere, it should escape its old cover in order to be able to flourish in freedom and light .... Your natural birth is a gift of God, Who provides the soul with the opportunity to create a new life for itself .... However, it must strive for its rebirth by itself, it must consciously enter a new life, it must consciously strive towards God and work at improving itself in order to release itself from its cover which effectively was a grave for the soul from which it had to emerge in order to exchange the state of death with that of life. This rebirth is not a gift of God, instead, the soul itself must aspire to it, but it is the human being's goal on earth which he must reach if he wants to become blessed. And he will achieve it if he, through a life of love, bursts the chains which still keep his soul constrained .... if he, through love, awakens this divine spark of life within himself .... if the previously dead soul, being weak and without knowledge, is inspired by this spark of life into God-pleasing activity .... if, in a manner of speaking, it allows itself to be impelled from within into God-pleasing acts of love, and thereby receives the strength to burst the chains and rise up into a kingdom where it feels at home and essentially belongs .... Then it will be born again, it will indeed still live on earth, but its earthly life will be accompanied by a spiritual life; its thoughts and intentions will be spiritually inclined, by having recognised its task in life it will strive to comply with it and consciously live in and with God .... However, it accomplished this spiritual awakening of its own will, certainly supported by God's grace, which nevertheless is at everyone's disposal, albeit not used by everyone due to a lack of will. You humans should make your spiritual rebirth the goal of your life on earth, for you will only live when you are born again, when your soul has arisen from the tomb of death, when it has escaped spiritual darkness and entered the light of day .... And every thought you consciously aim upwards, every deed you accomplish with love, assures you this spiritual rebirth, it must merely be your intention to provide a full life for your soul, don't keep it imprisoned if it wants to escape the confinement of its grave, you must entirely consciously strive for spiritual rebirth by overcoming everything that still burdens your soul, you must give it complete freedom .... The soul shall receive a new life, it shall enter this new life full of light and strength, an infinitely long state of constraint shall be transformed, it shall be born again in spirit and in truth in order to never ever lose this life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Value of spiritual and earthly knowledge ....

B.D. 6082 from October 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

It is extensive knowledge which can be conveyed to you spiritually .... it is knowledge which you humans alone, intellectually, will never be able to gain, for it gives you information about questions which no human being who has not been spiritually instructed again could answer. But you humans may also ask questions about everything .... You will receive answers if you choose the spiritual path .... if you ask God Himself to instruct you. But knowledge must always be a blessing for you; it must help your soul to mature .... God Himself will provide you with everything that helps the soul to do so, as soon as you request it, and everything that provides information about the creator's connection with His living creations, about the meaning and purpose of creation and about God and the creator of eternity will help the soul to mature .... So it is always spiritual areas which are made accessible to you humans when the knowledge of 'truth' is supplied to you. This fact should at the same time be an indication to you that earthly knowledge only has an illusory value, that it should not be overestimated or striven for more desirably at the expense of spiritual knowledge, for it does not bring the soul one step forward in its development. It can certainly also have a beneficial effect on the human being's time on earth, namely when a spiritually striving person places his earthly knowledge at the service of his fellow human beings, when he sees his earthly task in helping his fellow human beings and therefore acquires earthly knowledge without, however, forgetting God .... but to put Him before all his studies. He will truly be blessed spiritually and earthly .... earthly knowledge will be added to him because he strives for spiritual things first. Nevertheless, he will be far more delighted with the thoughts imparted to him from the world of the spirit, for they direct his gaze into eternity .... It lets him recognize his purpose of earthly life, and therefore he creates far more for the spiritual than for the earthly world .... and yet he also works to bless this world. Entrust yourselves to them for they can give you much .... But people who only live in the world and are distant from spiritual experience are like dead, fruitless trees which are unable to give anything that can bring salvation to their fellow human beings .... even though they possess worldly knowledge in abundance .... They are transient goods, without value, because they perish with the death of the human being, whereas spiritual goods, spiritual knowledge, will remain for eternity and signify light and knowledge for the soul, which will make it happy forever ....

Amen

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Rebirth .... Futile life on earth ....

B.D. 6117 from November 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 66

Your earthly life is futile if your soul does not progress spiritually .... if you cannot succeed to lift yourselves into spiritual spheres during this time .... to free yourselves from the tight bond with earth .... with material belongings .... if you don’t accomplish spiritual rebirth on earth. Your soul is meant to step out of dark detention into a bright life, it is meant to free itself from every physical bondage because it is a spirit and only happy in the spiritual realm where it is free from all restrictions. The earthly body is a constraint for the soul and the body’s desires are always of a physical nature .... If it allows itself to be controlled by the body then the soul will stay imprisoned, it remains earthly minded and all spiritual desire will be stifled. It has to free itself from physical longings, it should not give in to the demands of the body because the soul is the carrier of the will and has self-determination .... If it successfully overcomes the body or even persuades the body to follow its wishes or to do what it has identified as being ‘better’ then it is given tremendous support by the spirit which is buried deep within itself, which pushes the soul ever further towards the spiritual kingdom, offering it the riches of the spiritual realm and portraying them as the only attraction worth striving for ....

As soon as the soul is open to spiritual instruction its fate in eternity is decided, its rise is assured and earthly life has brought success for eternity .... Yet the soul’s preceding struggle is very hard when the body influences it in every way, when it is too weak to offer resistance, when the body remains dominant and clouds the soul so that it meekly gives itself to the body .... As soon as you humans are attracted to the world, as soon as you want to gain everything you can from it, as soon as you dispel all spiritual thoughts as they emerge, you are in great danger because you are not aware of the purpose of your earthly life and strive towards entirely different goals than those for whose attainment you live on earth ....

Your earthly life soon passes and at the hour of death you have to leave behind all worldly material possessions which you have gained .... You will be miserable if you enter the next world without spiritual wealth .... Don’t let your time on earth have been in vain, strive to free yourselves from everything that only serves the body but is of no benefit to the soul. And strive for the kingdom which is your true home and which you will enter again without fail when your physical life comes to an end .... but which can be rather different, depending on the quality of your soul .... Therefore improve yourselves, work and achieve for the spiritual kingdom as long as your earthly life is left to you .... or you will bitterly regret when it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Overcoming the material world

Reason for the spiritual decline Addiction to matter ....

B.D. 5504 from October 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

A major cause of people's spiritual decline is the ever-increasing addiction to matter. It is like a disease which has overtaken people, which leads to death, it is like an ever tightening shackle which threatens people's lives, for it is not earthly but spiritual life, the life of the soul, which is in danger. For the overwhelming desire for matter finds fulfillment, just as it is always the human being's own will, that determines the state of the soul. Hard matter will one day be its fate, which man so eagerly strives for. It cannot be made comprehensible to man that the desire for matter, for earthly possession, means a step backwards, for he strives for something which he had long since overcome, which meant a hard imprisonment for his soul, which was felt as lack of freedom and therefore as agony by the soul and every redemption from it, every progress in the bound state brought relief to the spiritual. And now, the human being strives for that from which his soul has fled, because it was a shackle. Everything earthly material only serves the body, but the soul, only then when it is overcome, when it stimulates the love of man to activity, to giving, to expressing oneself out of love for the neighbor. Then matter can also be useful for the life of the soul, but it must always be a detachment from it, not a desire for it in self-interest. As long as earthly goods are desired, the desire for spiritual goods does not exist or only to a very small extent, but the soul cannot take anything earthly with it into the spiritual kingdom, but certainly spiritual goods, which alone prepare a blissful state for it. If only people would consider that the next day can already end their earthly life, and that they would therefore make provisions for their stay in the spiritual kingdom .... if only they would consider that all earthly possessions are worthless to them and that what lives on in the spiritual kingdom passes over in utmost poverty, which is the human being's own fault on earth, and which he could easily have averted by collecting spiritual treasures on earth .... .... if he would consider that earthly life, even if it lasts a long time, is only a moment compared to eternity, but that the soul has to suffer from what the human being missed on earth .... Yet, he can only be reminded time and again of the idleness of his life, he can only be admonished time and again to think ahead and not to waste all his earthly energy on possessions, which are and remain completely worthless. He is in possession of free will and intellect, and can therefore only be instructed, but not forced to live his life in such a way that his soul will enter the spiritual kingdom in a healthy and powerful way .... This is why people will time and again be deprived of what they so ardently desire on earth, the transience of earthly possessions will time and again be brought to their attention, and blessed are those who realize that their purpose of earthly life is different from striving for earthly possessions; blessed are those who reflect and gather spiritual treasures, blessed are those who create and work for the salvation of the soul, for they will be rich and happy in the spiritual kingdom, and will now be able to create and work, because their wealth is imperishable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

World only means for the purpose .... overcoming matter ....

B.D. 5087 from March 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The world will never give you fulfilment, for in the end it will take away everything you possess of earthly goods. The world only considers your fleshly body but not your soul, and since the fleshly body perishes, the soul stands poor and bare at the gate to eternity if it has not created spiritual goods for itself on earth. The world only gives you in appearance, but in reality it takes away .... your right to eternal life .... You are indeed in the midst of the world, it has been given to you as a place to stay, so to speak, and the soul had to agree to spend a probationary period in this world. And it can also successfully pass this probationary period if the human being only regards the earthly world as a means to an end, as a means of testing, if he does not let it become master over him but always remains its master, if he does not make himself a slave to what surrounds him but always strives to overcome earthly matter in view of his earthly task, if he certainly uses it where it is at his disposal but in a God-ordained sense by helping matter itself to redemption ..... if he regards everything earthly-material as what it really is .... directed spiritual, which likewise walks the path of redemption and is grateful for every opportunity for serving activity. Then matter will never become master over the human being, then he will seek something for himself which is more desirable to him because it cannot pass away. Then he will supply the soul with goods which signify true wealth and will remain with it even after the discarding of the body of flesh. In this realization the human being does not regard matter as the fulfilment of his desire, it is only a necessary means for him to successfully cover the earthly path, and thus the world with all its incentives and temptations also loses its value for him. He knows that they are only sham goods and at the same time a strong danger of also losing the imperishable goods. That is why you should not love the world, for this love will only result in the loss of eternal life; you should learn to recognize it for what it is, as the realm of God's adversary, as a conglomeration of immature spiritual things which would like to draw the already more mature spiritual things down to themselves again. You should learn to recognize it as deceptive light in order not to let your souls recognize the true light; you should know that the world will pass away one day and that you therefore have to strive for that which is imperishable. Then the earthly world will lose all danger for you, on the contrary, you yourselves will be able to contribute a great deal to also help earthly matter to ascend by creating opportunities for it to be of service, i.e. by giving material things their purpose by creating useful objects so that the spiritual in them will be of service and thereby progress upwards. Seek to guide everything to its purpose and, in doing so, first and foremost remember your own soul so that it frees itself from earthly desires in the midst of the world, so that it learns to recognize the spiritual kingdom as its place of origin and strives towards it again with the serious will to achieve the reunion with God, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'The kingdom of heaven suffers violence ....'

B.D. 3722 from March 23rd 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Now let Me give you an explanation as to how I want My Word to be understood: 'The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and only those who use violence seize it ....' It is not to be understood as an exercise of violence towards one's fellow human being, but only the violence over oneself, over one's own desires, which helps the human being to gain possession, to take possession of the heavenly kingdom in all its glory. This cannot be given to him, but he must win it for himself, he must fight a battle for the highest good, for eternal bliss. And as long as the human being remains on earth this battle will have to be directed towards his physical desires, the fulfilment of which is always an obstacle to achieving the goal .... spiritual upward development .... Anyone who wants to be victorious in this battle has to do violence to himself .... And thus he has to fight with his adversary, who will always place physical desires, the longing for earthly possessions, into him, who will therefore entice him with worldly splendour and earthly glamour. To renounce everything that is offered to him in this way requires strength of will, it requires violence in itself, but by virtue of which he will most certainly seize the kingdom of heaven, for he who sacrifices for My sake will receive in the richest measure, and what is offered to him, what I offer him, is truly of indescribable value. The kingdom of heaven can never come to people who are indifferent and indolent, who do not struggle but let everything take its course .... who only testify to their desire for the kingdom of heaven through words and wishes but who never turn words and wishes into action. And thus the time has come when force has to be used more than ever if the kingdom of heaven is to be open to people .... Yet in My love I come to meet all those who fight .... I help them in their fight against themselves by reducing the temptations of this world, by showing them the frailty and transience of everything they desired, and which giving up requires a hard fight against themselves .... I know about the human being's weakness and assess his will, thus I stand by him if he only wants to gain Me and My kingdom but lacks the strength to use force against himself and his desires. And thus I will not demand more use of force than he is capable of .... I let him go through earthly hardship in order to make the kingdom of heaven desirable to him, and if he only wants to use the slightest violence he will also succeed in seizing the kingdom of heaven. But his will must always become active itself. He must fight against his desires, he must learn to despise everything worldly and thus sacrifice what is dear to him .... and if his strength and his will are not sufficient for this I shall use force .... I draw him to Me and take from him what he does not want to give up on his own .... And if he surrenders to My will he has passed the inner battle. He has likewise used force and seized the kingdom of heaven with My support, which I will not deny to anyone who is willing and testifies to Me through his prayer. The kingdom of heaven is open to him, and once he has completed his short time on earth he will be received by Me into My kingdom of glory, as I have promised, and he will be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Right directed desire .... (new year)

B.D. 5568 from January 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 61

What you strive for will become yours .... All of you who desire Me, you will also reach Me, for I draw you to Me as soon as only your will is meant for Me .... But you who desire the world's goods will become its slaves, they will dominate you and finally take you completely captive so that you will remain bound in matter for an infinitely long time. However, if earthly possessions are taken from you, who have only directed your senses worldly, then accept this as an undeserved grace, for you can still find salvation from this bound state, you can still come to your senses and turn away from earthly possessions and strive towards Me in the knowledge of the imperishable. And therefore remember the value of what you strive for .... No matter how tempting it may seem to you .... give it up if it is transient, and seek to acquire that which has eternal value .... For your will will be valued, what you earnestly desire will be given to you. The earthly lifetime is short and especially short for the presently living human race .... And even if you are fulfilled in everything earthly, this earthly life is no compensation for the life in eternity which you will have acquired on earth. Earthly wealth will certainly earn you spiritual poverty if your wealth is not blessed by Me because you use it according to My will, in unselfish neighbourly love. But then your heart has long since freed itself from the desire for it, then you have long since overcome matter, which should also be your aim. But as long as you still desire riches spiritual treasures are little to be found with you, and then earthly wealth is a danger for you which you don't recognize. This is why I warn you against it, this is why I assure you that you will receive what you desire and that you should therefore direct your desire correctly so that hard matter will not one day become your fate of immeasurable torment. Remember these words of Mine and strive towards the right aim, direct your thoughts spiritually, seek Me and My kingdom, seek to acquire goods with which I want to bless you abundantly if only you desire them in your heart, and always be aware of the fact that your life on earth will not last forever but that life after the death of your body is ordered according to your innermost desire .... that you can enter the spiritual kingdom in full possession of light and strength, blessed with spiritual possessions, but that you will also have to bear the consequences of your striving on earth poorly and miserably, without strength and blindly, for endless times and will only attain spiritual possessions with difficulty, and this will never happen without loving help, because you alone lack the strength to improve your lot. Therefore make good use of earthly time, acquire what is abundantly at your disposal but requires your free will. And recognize as worthless everything that only creates comfort for the body but leaves the soul unprovided for. Use the time well, for it will not last much longer, the end is closer than you think; therefore create and work while it is still day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Death or life .... Overcoming the world ....

B.D. 6571 from June 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

He who loves the world will lose his life, he who despises it will gain his life .... For the world brings death to the soul, but overcoming the world awakens it to life .... You humans certainly stand in the midst of the world, and it is your earthly task to carry out the position where you have been placed also in an earthly manner. Nevertheless, apart from this task you can fulfil your actual earthly task: You can give life to your soul by valuing another goal higher than the world, by striving spiritually in the midst of the world. However, this actual earthly task of yours first requires of you to overcome the world, i.e. it must not dominate you but you must be and remain master over everything that belongs to the world .... you must only pay attention to it as far below you as it should serve you. But you should focus your attention on the spiritual kingdom which you can acquire if you live right on earth. You can choose between life and death, for you alone determine the state of your soul after the body's demise. But you can never gain life if you are enslaved by the world, if nothing else occupies your thoughts but only the attainment of earthly goods and goals .... Consider this well and strive to give life to the soul .... You cannot possess or gain both the earthly and the spiritual kingdom at the same time, you must decide for one or the other, for both kingdoms are opposites as are the demands each kingdom makes on you. But remember that one kingdom is transient whereas the other lasts forever .... And do not use your strength, your worries and efforts for something worthless which you will lose again, but use all your vitality to gain eternal values. Life or death is the result of your earthly life, and you yourselves determine this .... So let yourselves be admonished and warned time and again and be reminded of the end of your life, which you cannot escape, which is present to your mind as a certainty. If you want to live forever and not need to fear earthly death, then you must also already on earth take care of this life by paying more attention to the soul than to your body .... by trying to awaken and maintain its life and just allowing the body to live in want, which cannot live forever after all .... And therefore you must not pay too much attention to the world, which only serves the body but not the soul. If you regard the world as your enemy who only wants to hand you over to death .... because the world embodies God's adversary .... then you will also lose all love for the world and turn your thoughts to the kingdom in which God reigns, Whose concern is only ever to awaken everything that is dead to life so that it can be eternally blissful in His kingdom .... Then the world will also no longer be a danger, then you will have overcome it, then you will be able to stand in the midst of the world and yet gain for your soul the life that lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Collecting spiritual treasures

Collecting spiritual treasures .... bogus goods ....

B.D. 3499 from July 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

All that the world offers are illusory goods that are without any value and without permanence. They are only given to the human being to test his will, who should turn away from them in order to strive for spiritual goods which are of lasting value and imperishable. The person who lives in love very quickly learns to recognize the worthlessness of earthly goods, whereas a person who lacks love for his neighbour has an increased desire for it, thus his love is wrongly directed and strives for what it should overcome. Until he fights this love, spiritual good is not desirable to him. At the end of his life, however, he must separate himself from all earthly things, and this separation will be difficult or easy for him, depending on his attitude towards the pseudo-goods of the world. To have overcome these means an easy detachment from earth; but the human being who has lost his heart to matter, to dead goods without value and continuance, is held back to earth as if by chains. His soul cannot detach itself and it means a difficult battle for it in which it is defeated as soon as the end has come. And now it enters the spiritual kingdom completely poor and naked, which only offers it what the soul desired on earth .... again sham goods, although they are no longer material, yet they constantly oppress it as foam formations by increasing the desire for them, while the soul is denied fulfilment so that it shall recognize the worthlessness of what it aspired to on earth. But the soul does not possess spiritual goods since it has not collected any on earth. And its fate is not very enviable .... Nowhere does it find what it is looking for, and poor and meagre it now dwells in desolate surroundings. She cannot hand out anything since she has nothing herself and therefore cannot receive anything either, because it is the law in the spiritual kingdom that every soul is considered according to its will to love, that only those who give receive, and receiving as well as giving is blissful. It is indeed also offered spiritual gifts by loving souls in order to help it, yet a soul which has not yet overcome earthly matter and constantly desires its possession will not accept spiritual gifts because it does not yet recognize their value and desires them just as little as on earth. It must first have killed its own desire, it must have recognized its worthlessness and now strive for constant goods, only then will it pay attention to these if they are offered to it, and only then will it seek to collect spiritual treasures. Whoever already achieves this on earth enters the beyond carefree, and the spiritual goods he has acquired on earth he takes with him into the spiritual kingdom. And since he now has treasures at his disposal he can also work with them, he can distribute and constantly receive new treasures for his own happiness, for love impels him to use what he possesses .... he distributes and makes the souls happy which are needy but want to receive in order to be able to give again. The treasures of the world are so worthless and yet people desire them and strive for them with all eagerness. But they pay no attention to the spiritual treasures and therefore they also fear the physical end because they only think of the body but not of the soul. And God comes to their aid by showing them the transience of earthly goods in order to make them think. He also gives them spiritual gifts and tries to persuade them to accept them, yet He does not force free will but leaves the human being free to decide for the goods of this world or the gifts from the spiritual kingdom .... However, the end and the entrance into the spiritual kingdom will be according to their decision of will, for the soul creates its own fate according to its desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gathering spiritual treasures on earth .... Regret in the beyond ....

B.D. 4455 from October 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Anyone who has not gathered spiritual treasures for himself on earth and thus enters the gates of the beyond empty handed is one of the poorest in the spiritual kingdom. I would like to spare you this fate because you will experience bitter regret when you look back and see the many missed opportunities. Poverty in the spiritual kingdom is so depressing and hopeless that it will torment you and completely paralyse your will, as a result you will hardly be able to deliver yourselves from this painful state. And yet it is so easy to acquire spiritual possessions on earth if only you thought of Me and desired to speak to Me. Merely this desire guarantees receipt of My Word in different ways .... You will always be shown where you can receive My Word if you do not accept it from Me in your thoughts, that is, if you cannot recognise My voice in your thoughts.

However, it is certain that you will feel the inner motivation to do kind deeds as soon as you contact Me in thought and thus intend to get in touch with Me. I announce Myself by prompting you to love because only then can I enter into complete union with you. Thus, first of all I inspire you to actions of love, and this directly through the inner voice or through external advice and reminders by the deliverers of My Word who only preach love. If you listen to them and follow the Word then you will also gather spiritual possessions and acquire riches which will remain with you eternally, which cannot be taken from you on earth or in the beyond and which will increase in the same way, even when you constantly share them. To enter the kingdom on the other side blessed with such possessions is truly most desirable as it assures your eternal life in the spiritual kingdom, a life of activity which can only be called enjoyable and will be felt by you as a great blessing.

But those who enter completely empty handed will find it very difficult to acquire spiritual wealth even though it is not entirely hopeless. Even there the Gospel will be taught to the soul but, like on earth, it is not forced to accept it; like on earth, acceptance depends on its will which, however, is extraordinarily weakened and cannot make the right decision without the help of additional strength. And this input of strength in turn depends on the will of the soul to use it for deeds of love .... or on the loving intercession of a human being. For that reason you cannot have enough compassion for these poor souls who urgently require your help because they neglected to gather spiritual treasures on earth to make their state in the beyond a happy one. Their poverty is great but people do not listen to My Word, they do not believe and therefore enter the kingdom on the other side poor and with darkened spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Acquiring spiritual goods .... earthly activity .... idleness ....

B.D. 4881 from April 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Nothing is more important on earth than the soul's development upwards. Therefore, every earthly activity should only satisfy you if spiritual work is carried out at the same time, which, as the most necessary activity, must never be disregarded if earthly life is to be successful. For whatever earthly possessions you gain through earthly activity are impermanent possessions which can certainly secure you an earthly life of well-being, but only if My will allows it. You have an earthly task to fulfil which alone should be important to you .... you shall mature spiritually .... And the world, together with everything desirable to you, is only the means to an end; it is the opportunities in which you are to mature. And thus earthly life must indeed be lived in the midst of these things which stimulate and spur you on to earthly activity, yet it must not be an end in itself, you must become and remain aware that you have a higher task to fulfil than merely increasing earthly possessions or creating physical comfort, and only when spiritual work precedes earthly work will you fulfil the purpose of earthly life. And therefore you must always bear in mind that it is not in your power to prolong your earthly life by just one day. Furthermore, you must always reckon with being called away and be aware of the fact that you will then have to leave behind everything you have acquired on earth and may only take over into the beyond what you have acquired in spiritual treasures. And thus every thing is worthless which appears desirable to you on earth, for it is matter which does not follow you into the spiritual kingdom but is always and constantly a share of earth which, however, you only live in for a short time. And since you never know when your time is up you will only act wisely if you use every day to acquire spiritual wealth. Therefore, spiritual activity alone is profitable, even though you should also do your earthly duty and carry out work which is of benefit to your neighbour. One should serve the other .... then every earthly activity is, as it were, a service to the neighbour as long as it is not detrimental to him. For this reason a person must not be idle, otherwise he will not use his vitality and his works of neighbourly love will only be minimal. An idle person will not do spiritual work either, for this requires a heart willing to love, and willingness to love always expresses itself in such a way that the neighbour's needs, be they of a physical or spiritual nature, are taken into account. What the human being does to serve his fellow human beings is earthly activity which is at the same time credited as spiritual soul work, but earthly work which only strives for one's own advantage, which is only motivated by self-love, is worthless for eternity. It is uselessly wasted time which can never be recovered, which, moreover, still means a decline for the soul, yet from a purely worldly point of view the greatest advantages are achieved because the human being works with the help of My adversary who provides him with earthly goods to a great extent. Yet such a person enters the spiritual kingdom empty and poor after his death, for he has to leave everything behind on earth and has no spiritual treasures to show for it. His life was lived to no purpose and a sad fate awaits him in the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to gather spiritual treasures on earth ....

B.D. 5325 from February 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The wealth of spiritual good cannot be desired enough, for it alone creates beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond when the soul has discarded everything it possessed on earth, when it dwells in the spiritual realm where only spiritual good is of value because it alone is imperishable. You can acquire this wealth on earth but only if you ignore earthly wealth, because you cannot be granted both at the same time. You must know that two masters offer you their goods but that the goods are completely opposite as well as the masters who want to distribute them. Both have a different sphere into which they want to draw you .... and both areas are far apart so that you will have to decide which one you prefer. That is why both lords entice you with their goods .... but one of them is transient while the other lasts forever .... You should consider this when you are confronted with the decision .... Do you only want temporary happiness? Or do you seek eternal happiness? Then you must also choose the father and creator of eternity, Who wants to provide you with everlasting treasures if only you confess Him. He will give you plenty so that you need not suffer any lack, and He will also provide you with the perishable goods which you need to maintain your body, as soon as you first desire the spiritual gifts. But as long as your eyes are blinded by the treasures His adversary offers you, you will not see the mild splendour of the spiritual gifts. Therefore you must turn away from them and be content with the fulfilment of earthly needs, which the father and creator of eternity assures you, so that you will live on earth and not become incapable of acquiring spiritual wealth. For He is truly your father Who cares for your spiritual and physical well-being but Who will never give you goods which are perishable for you, even if they seem indispensable to you during your earthly lifetime. They only cling to you from the outside and yet block the access to the soul for those who would like to provide them with spiritual nourishment. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, everything else will be granted to you .... But you will never be able to find the kingdom of God if you seek it in the world, which is the kingdom of His adversary .... And you will lose everything you have gathered in earthly possessions, for none of it will follow you into eternity. But the spiritual possessions can no longer be taken away from you, they will follow you into eternity, they are the soul's share which it will take with it into eternity ....

And therefore it cannot be presented to you loudly and admonishingly enough that you should acquire spiritual treasures on earth, that you should create wealth for yourselves which signifies an inconceivable blessing in the spiritual kingdom .... a wealth which will always increase, although you use it to constantly distribute, to give to the needy, to whom you want to practice merciful neighbourly love because you yourselves are driven to do so by love. Acquire this wealth on earth so that you will not have lived in vain .... Decide in favour of the lord, Who offers you good gifts, receive from His hand what His infinite love offers you and make all those happy who are poor and need your help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Decision in earthly life between the spiritual and earthly world

World and earthly pleasures or spiritual realm ....

B.D. 3254 from September 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Anyone who makes the world his friend will have no share in the spiritual kingdom, for the earthly world prevents the human being from seeking contact with the spiritual kingdom, and without this connection there is no spiritual progress, thus no higher development of the soul. The human being is earthbound as long as he stays on earth, but he can still detach himself from it, he can overcome the earth as long as he only pays as much attention to earthly things as is necessary to fulfil his earthly task. Then he will be able to join the spiritual kingdom all the more eagerly and fully receive its treasures, the spiritual wealth which promotes his higher development. Spiritual treasures and earthly treasures can never be acquired at the same time, but only one at the expense of the other. And the human being must be clear about what he would rather give up and what he would like to receive. He will often be confronted with the decision, temptations will approach him, the world will entice him with earthly joys and pleasures; yet the spiritual kingdom will also send its messengers and make itself desirable to him, and then the human being must decide in all freedom of will which treasures he desires. Spiritual treasures are far more valuable than earthly treasures, for they outlast earthly life and ensure a blissful life in eternity. Earthly treasures and joys, on the other hand, are only temporarily gratifying, only to flatten out and leave an emptiness in the heart, for the soul feels that they do not contribute to its salvation, to its spiritual development. And therefore earthly pleasures are a danger for the souls as long as they fill the human being's heart and deny him the entrance into the spiritual kingdom. And yet the human being has to be confronted with such decisions, he has to learn to decide, he has to realize that he can only take one path, upwards or downwards. If he is seriously willing to acquire the kingdom of God he will always remain close to God in prayer and in loving activity, and then God Himself will take the lead and guide the earthly child through all dangers. He only needs the human being's complete devotion in order to be able to look after him with fatherly love, and He only wants what is right for His children. He wants to make them blissfully happy, and He will safely guide them towards the eternal home where glories await them which outweigh every earthly happiness a thousand fold. And therefore the human being should overcome himself, he should not worry about his life on earth but about eternal life in the spiritual kingdom. He should give up everything that prevents him from connecting with that kingdom, he should be strong in renunciation and even stronger in desire, yet only spiritual goods and be willing to sacrifice earthly goods for them. Then his higher development will not be questioned, for anyone who desires the world will also receive the world's goods; but anyone who longs for the spiritual kingdom will be given from this kingdom in abundance .... He will be instructed and strengthened, he need not fear a decline, he is always and constantly in contact with good spiritual forces, and his earthly body no longer desires anything for itself but joins the soul's desire which wants to gain eternal life and therefore sacrifices everything that means a danger to its spiritual development .... For the human being only received earthly life as a grace for this, and therefore spiritual development must never be disregarded ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Decision between spiritual and earthly world ....

B.D. 4526 from December 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Choose between Me and My adversary .... Choose between the spiritual kingdom and the earthly world .... Know that the spiritual kingdom will be lost to you if you lose the earthly world, and know that you will also lose Me and that the adversary will draw you into his nets if you strive for earthly possessions and pay no attention to Me. To surrender the world is to gain Me, to possess the world is to lose Me. But the desire of the heart is always decisive as to how far you desire the world or Me. For even on earth you can call goods your own, yet how you relate to them in your heart also determines your spiritual development and the possession of spiritual goods; anyone who is only filled with desire for earthly possessions has no sense for spiritual things, he is so distant from Me, the spiritual kingdom is so improbable to him, he is without faith and also without neighbourly love, for he only has his physical well-being in mind and only creates and works for himself, for the physical shell which will soon pass away. You have to make a decision, for depending on your attitude you will be considered to be spiritually rich if you desire Me and ignore earthly goods, or you will gain worldly advantages if you strive for them and walk your earthly path with My adversary's support. But then you will distance yourselves from Me and go to the kingdom of darkness .... And I would like to protect you from this. The children of the world cannot be called happy, even though they seem to live happily and freely. For nothing that falls to them, that they possess or strive for, is permanent. Everything passes away and they themselves likewise, and what remains for them is misery and darkness .... But those who strive for Me and My kingdom can certainly be called poor on earth, they will also often go through suffering and affliction, yet beatitude is certain for them when they are rid of their physical shell. Then they will be repaid a thousand fold for what they had to do without on earth and what they now possess will last forever and will make you happier than you could ever be on earth. Yet you have to make a free decision, you have to choose between Me and My adversary without coercion, and your fate on earth and in the beyond will be the same ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God-inclined will is the passed test on earth ....

B.D. 5460 from August 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Those of you who looked for and found Me will never ever lose Me again. Admittedly, as long as you live on earth you are exposed to My adversary's influence, yet once a person's will has turned to Me I will have taken hold of him and prevent his relapse into the abyss. However, I Am talking about a serious person's will who strives to Me in a fully conscious state .... Where this seriousness is not yet present My adversary can certainly still succeed in pushing him away from Me, for there are people who, through upbringing or discussions with others, have more or less become followers, who thus join their fellow human beings but not because of the inner desire to hasten towards the Father they recognised in Me. But where this inner desire has awoken in a person My Fatherly love becomes active .... I constantly coax and call this person, I take hold of him and never let go of him again. He is already released from Satan's chain even though the latter will not stop in his efforts to win him back until I recall the person into My kingdom. A will which is seriously inclined towards Me is the most certain guarantee that a person will gain Me and My kingdom .... For I give him strength because I long for My child Myself and his will has already passed the test on earth. It is merely a matter of decision for Me or for My adversary .... The serious will is the decision, precisely because this will had turned away from Me in the past and the return to Me must therefore be accomplished willingly .... I judge the will and not mere words which are not serious but most certainly recognisable by Me as mere words, which are voiced by the mouth or are thought but which the heart is unaware of .... Nevertheless, once the will for Me has awakened the human being will incessantly strive towards higher spheres. For as soon as he receives My strength as a result of his change of will he will use it for spiritual striving. He will have effectively joined Me already, I will be walking next to him, I will just not be recognised by him as long as he is still weak in love .... But once the love in him grows stronger My image will become increasingly clearer until he has accepted Me Myself through the love in him and then he will also recognise that he can no longer descend into the abyss, because I do not relinquish what belongs to Me and voluntarily has become My Own. You will never ever be able to separate yourselves from Me again if you passed the test of earthly life, insofar as that your will has chosen Me. Then earthly life can only contribute towards a higher maturity of soul, you will be consciously of service to Me and faithful to Me until I recall you into My kingdom when your hour has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly tests of will .... constant struggle ....

B.D. 7030 from February 1st 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Many earthly tests of will are imposed on you, i.e. your will often has to decide in earthly matters and then you also ask yourselves whether your decision was right. But you are mostly only concerned about earthly success .... You are less concerned about whether you have complied with the will of your father in heaven, Who did not put you before that decision for nothing; for He wants to test your inclination towards matter, He wants to induce you to also remember with every decision that you think and act rightly and justly towards your soul. For it is not God's will that you only think of your earthly advantage but also take care of your neighbour's .... People usually strive for their own advantage at the expense of their fellow human beings, and this is what every person should think about when faced with earthly decisions. Furthermore, it is not irrelevant whether only the human being's intellect deals with these decisions or whether the one Who alone can advise correctly is always remembered .... For as soon as God is approached for guidance and advice the human being's thinking and decision will also be right, everything will, as it were, arise of its own accord and every obstacle will be removed .... for God also wants to be approached for advice and help in earthly questions and matters, and His help always consists of everything arising of its own accord as it is good .... Earthly existence is a battle and will remain so, yet if it is conducted with God then the battle will also end well, it will be able to end victoriously and also lead to the spiritual aim. The struggle, however, mainly consists of overcoming the earthly world, even though the human being stands in the midst of the world .... He must fulfil his duties, he cannot evade every demand placed on him by the world .... But he can nevertheless withdraw himself, i.e. his inner being, his thinking, feeling and wanting, from the influence of the earthly world, he can shape himself in such a way that the desire for the world no longer fills him but the spiritual kingdom is worth striving for .... And in the midst of the world he can do justice to the duties and demands placed upon him because he has already achieved victory over matter. And then earthly goods can also fall to him, which he only sees himself as the administrator of and utilizes them in the right way in the service of his neighbour .... But to what extent the human heart is still involved in earthly goods and earthly successes is something the human being has to answer for himself. And this is therefore also decisive for the respective decision in earthly life .... A sincerely willing person will always receive divine guidance and help; but where the person's own will is still too strong God's will cannot be heard, and God also holds Himself back as long as the person does not fully submit himself to Him. And then resistances and obstacles will replace each other, the human being will not have a clear gift of decision, his own will still strongly emerge .... i.e., the world has not yet completely lost its appeal and has a corresponding effect on the human being. And this is the battle which you have to fight again and again, in which you must not succumb, from which you should nevertheless emerge victorious one day and can do so if only you don't forget the one Who let you walk this earthly path so that you will reach perfection in it, so that you will recognize Him as the most desirable aim and now also pursue this alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right use of the life force to work love

Right use of the life force: working in love ....

B.D. 7253 from January 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every day places new demands on you, and again and again you need strength to be able to meet these demands. And as long as your vitality is still at your disposal you will also be able to fulfil your earthly as well as spiritual task. For even the only earthly used vitality can earn you spiritual strength if your earthly activity consists of works of love. But once you have gained spiritual strength you need no longer worry about being able to fulfil your task, for through the supply of spiritual strength you will always be more stimulated into loving activity, and thus you will accomplish the change of nature for the purpose of which you live on earth. Thus not much is actually demanded of you humans other than the change from selfish love to unselfish neighbourly love. But nevertheless you need strength for this, because love is strength, and if you have not yet ignited it in yourselves you are devoid of all strength. But selfish love is not strength, on the contrary, it still robs you of strength, for it will always demand your life force for the highest achievement in order to be able to do justice to itself; selfish love demands everything for itself, and thus it also only abuses the life force for the benefit of the body, because only that is helpful to the soul which works itself out as unselfish love .... Hence, if a person uses his vitality for loving service his soul will derive the greatest benefit from it, the person will receive much spiritual strength and this, in turn, will irrevocably bring the soul to maturity, for a person who is of service with love will never refrain from this activity, the works of love will increase, the supply of spiritual strength will impel him to work with love and bring ever greater maturity to his soul. And it is such love which the human being should kindle in himself and let flare up into a bright flame, for it is divine love, whereas selfish love is an inheritance from God's adversary and therefore will not make him happy either. For although the human being strives to gain all advantages for himself and will also mostly receive them through the adversary's support, he is and remains a weak being which has no light of realization and no strength to recognize and strive for the true purpose of earthly life .... He will depart from this earth in this powerless and lightless state and enter the kingdom of the beyond in exactly the same way, whereas the loving human being already acquires light and strength on earth and enters the spiritual kingdom in a garment of light, thus he need not fear darkness or weakness because he has gathered much spiritual strength on earth, because he has used his vitality correctly to work with love. Love is strength, but without love there can be no strength either, only lightlessness and powerlessness. You humans need all strength, and if you want to fulfil your earthly task and are still powerless, then appeal to God for the supply of strength to work with love, and He will guide your senses correctly so that you make good use of your vitality and thereby acquire spiritual strength. But don't believe that you will always be left with the strength you currently still possess .... Even vitality is a gift which will be taken from you again when the hour of departure from this earth has come. Therefore make sure that you will have plenty of strength at your disposal then, that you will have gathered spiritual possessions so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom full of light and strength and then also be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unselfish labor of love .... right walk before God ....

B.D. 2893 from September 24th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

Examine yourselves, exercise the strictest criticism of yourselves as to how far you submit yourselves to God's commandments and whether your thoughts and actions correspond to God's will .... You must bear one thing in mind, that you do not disregard the divine commandment of love, you must always and constantly make this your guiding principle, that you are active in love in the most unselfish way. You have a task to fulfill on earth, to mature your soul, and you can only do this by leading a way of life which is pleasing to God, thus fully complies with His will. And therefore you must make an effort to discard all selfish love, you must only ever strive to make your fellow human being happy by renouncing your own wishes, you must show him the love which Jesus Christ taught you .... pure, selfless love which is also willing to make sacrifices and does not strive for its own advantage. Such love is pleasing to God and will bring you spiritual progress; you will fulfill the purpose of your earthly life and you will receive God's love in return, Who can only radiate His love to you if you are active in love yourselves. And this divine love will make you happy, it will replace a thousand fold what you give on earth, what you voluntarily sacrifice to Him in order to help your neighbor. And thus you should always try to make yourselves worthy of divine love by living entirely in accordance with His will. You do not sacrifice, but you receive, only that it is other goods which unselfish neighborly love earns you, that they are not earthly goods or pleasures of the world, but purely spiritual goods which God now imparts to you. For this alone is true wealth, which is everlasting and which you will never have to give away once you have received it. God's love considers your soul and tries to make it happy. And what you receive from His hand is truly far more valuable than what the world can offer you, what you strive for in terms of earthly fulfillment .... God's love has no measure and can flow to you in all abundance so that you can already enjoy the bliss on earth which arises from your bond with Him. And therefore strive for this bond as long as you work on earth, for the strength of desire is the measure of its fullness .... Live in love, help at all times and desire nothing for yourselves, take part in every adversity of your fellow human being, try to alleviate it through active help, be the spiritual and physical leader of those who need guidance on earth, make every sacrifice if you thereby accomplish a good work and selflessly step back if you can thereby improve the situation of your fellow human beings .... Live in love, keep the divine commandments and thereby make yourselves worthy to be a candidate for the kingdom of God, which God has promised to those who love Him and prove this love to Him through unselfish acts of love for their neighbor ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Acquiring spiritual power through love work ....

B.D. 7107 from April 30th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You are still wearing your earthly garment, and this means that you possess vitality which you can use for the salvation of your soul, which gives you the opportunity to carry out works of love. But once you have taken off this earthly garment it also means a lack of strength if you have not already acquired spiritual strength on earth which alone is of value in the kingdom of the beyond. Therefore you can no longer be active according to your will because you lack the strength for it. And therefore you are in a state of death, although your soul cannot pass away. The strength given to you for earthly life is a grace which all of you humans do not make enough use of or which you use wrongly, i.e. you only use it for the benefit of your body which, however, is transient. Every day is a gift of grace for you of which you should be aware, for the very next day can put an end to your life, and then it will become apparent how you have used the gift of grace, how much your soul has gained and whether you are in possession of spiritual strength when you enter the kingdom of the beyond. The human being certainly appreciates earthly life and does everything to make it pleasant for himself. And it would be easy for him to acquire spiritual strength if he would only carry out deeds of unselfish love. He himself can choose between life and death .... he can create eternal life for himself, and he also knows that he fears the death of the body .... so he prefers 'life' to himself .... And life means being able to be constantly active in light and strength. And so the state of death must consist in the opposite: in darkness and powerlessness, to be powerless to create and work .... But there is no passing away, and thus the soul will be aware of its dead state and it will cause it unspeakable agony. But the human being can avert this agonizing state from himself or his soul during earthly life if only he listens to what he is taught through the word of God .... if he fulfils God's commandments of love .... He is not without knowledge of God's will, he is pointed to it by His servants and he is also driven by inner feelings to work in selfless love .... But he is not forced to do so. And thus it is up to him how he uses his vitality, but his will will also have an irrevocable effect in the kingdom of the beyond, whether it was right or wrongly directed in earthly life. But as long as you humans are still on earth you will also be offered the opportunity to be active in selfless love, and now you will also understand why there is adversity amongst people, physical and spiritual adversity, for you can always intervene to help, and every work of love will be doubly blessed .... Your fellow human beings will thank you for it and you yourselves will truly benefit even more. For your soul derives a profit from every labour of love .... But anyone who passes by his fellow human being's adversity, who does not help even though he can, will remain doubly burdened, for one day he will bitterly regret every sin of omission, even if times can pass before he comes to the realization that he lived his earthly life in vain and will never be able to make up for what he missed on this earth. With gratitude you should regard every day as a gift, for as long as you live you can also practic

e love and acquire spiritual goods for your soul. As long as you live you can still change your way of life, and you should always remember that one day you will have to give account of whether and how you use the gift of grace, how you have used your life energy, whether you ignite love within you and only ever carry out unselfish works of love or whether only self-love has determined your earthly existence .... For then you will not enter into life but your soul will still have to remain in the state of death for endless times .... but through your own fault ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength of faith .... Healing the sick .... Miracles ....

B.D. 5843 from January 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 63

You will be able to work with inconceivable strength if you call upon Me for help with profound faith. You must be motivated by love to request this strength of Mine, your faith must be so strong that you will not hesitate for a second when you think of helping a person in need. Then you shall work in My name and you will be impelled by My spirit to do so .... Therefore, do not believe that you take the right to do something that does not correspond to My will, but do without qualms whatever you feel impelled to do and you will succeed. For I have guaranteed you My strength if you are of strong faith. And it is My will that your fellow human beings shall be persuaded of the strength of faith in the last days before the end, hence I will not let you be harmed if you want to serve Me and at the same time your fellow human beings. But I will never give My blessings for actions of self-interest, destruction or heartlessness .... Understand that love has to be the driving force and motivate you to request My strength, never hatred or an urge for revenge, for only love moves My spirit into action. And only through love can you unite with Me so that you then can also partake of My strength. And this love lets your faith come so alive that you no longer doubt the success of what you want to achieve. This also explains the many healings of the sick which are accomplished in My name.

Then I Myself Am called upon for help, My promise is being appealed to 'Ask, and it shall be given to you; knock, and it shall be opened to you .... ' and with complete faith in the truth of My Word anyone who is lovingly taken care of by the healer will be healed, for the latter will have handed himself over to Me and I will truly be with him in My strength .... he can cure him because he can make unlimited use of My strength. Profoundly faithful people can therefore work on earth for the benefit of their fellow human beings, for they are permitted to do so as soon as they associate it with a living testimony of My name, as soon as My name is thereby glorified .... as soon as it happens in order to help people who strive towards Me gain a firm and indisputable faith .... and not in order to force disbelievers into believing .... Complete unbelief is an obstacle for the working of My spirit .... And the confessor of My name will either be restrained by My spirit from working miracles while watched by a non-believer or the latter will substantiate any healing with natural explanations .... Yet in the last days the weak shall still be won over by overcoming their resistance through the strength of faith of My Own .... And therefore many a miracle will be accomplished in My name in the last days, so that those of weak faith shall be strengthened in order to then be able to believe with conviction and to stand firm in the last battle on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Change of character into love .... God´s presence ....

B.D. 7351 from May 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 78

I can only be present to you if you change yourselves into love .... However, My presence is the epitome of bliss for you. And therefore you should do everything in your power to shape yourselves into love again, which was your nature in the beginning .... My presence is the equivalent of being permeated by love, and this permeation of love in turn assures you strength and light, without it you cannot be called blissfully happy. But if you are full of light and strength you will also be able to work in complete freedom of will which, however, will no longer be directed against Me but will be utterly absorbed in My will. You will be happy to be able to create in this freedom and strength, because this had been the purpose of every originally created spirit, it merely disregarded it and thus placed itself into the wretched condition in which the still imperfect human being finds himself on earth .... But he himself can change this situation; he can change the unhappy fate into a blissful one by merely doing everything in his power in order to assure My presence with him .... by changing himself into love again .... And this is truly not so difficult, for he need only use My commandments of love for God and his neighbour as a guiding principle for his life on earth and always live according to these two commandments. And since he claims the right for himself to be respected by his fellow human being, since he feels the benefit himself when the latter helps him with kindness, he knows exactly which path he ought to travel in order to do justice to the commandments of love .... He need only treat his fellow human being as he would like to be treated himself were he in the same situation as the other person. What he considers beneficial he should do to his neighbour, and he will always have the strength and the means for this providing he really wants to do it. And what he initially does deliberately will soon become his heartfelt need and he will experience for himself how gladdening it can be to do good deeds for his neighbour, to give and help where it is needed .... Love will fill his whole being and he will come ever closer to Me, for with every act of love he draws Me to himself and ensures My presence ....

And then he will fulfil the purpose of his earthly life, he will accomplish the transformation of his nature, he will live up to the reason why earthly life was given to him: He will try to become as perfect as he was in the beginning. With My grace and support He will certainly succeed in doing so but never without Me, because he is too weak for it. He must ensure himself of My presence .... He must appeal to Me and thus through prayer come close to Me one day, he must beseech Me to grant him strength for his change of character into love .... This prayer will be granted to him without fail, for it gives evidence of his sincere will to accomplish this change of character, and once a person has appealed to Me for this he will time and again encounter opportunities where he can practise love, where it is no real effort of will for him because he will clearly receive the strength he appealed for from Me. Just take your change of character into love seriously .... and appeal to Me for help .... And truly, I will remain present to you and inwardly impel you to be lovingly active wherever the opportunity presents itself, for I want to be united with you and this can only take place through love which you voluntarily have to demonstrate, but you will always be supported by Me providing you sincerely ask Me for strength to accomplish your intention. You are incapable of doing anything without My presence, but you can always ensure My presence through activity of love or a prayer in spirit and in truth. I will hear it and answer your prayer, I will be and remain with you, I will draw you until you will no longer want to detach yourselves from Me, until you have so strengthened the bond with Me through your activity of love that I can constantly be present to you and then the re-transformation into love will have been accomplished, you will have brought your nature into line with Mine and thereby fulfilled your purpose of earthly life, and you will be able to work again as you were destined to in the very beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love is the key to the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 5314 from February 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You will only be able to comprehend Me through love .... There is no other way you can win Me, no other way to recognise Me but through love. And thus you have the key which will open the door to My heart for you, the gate into the spiritual kingdom, to your Father's house. Without this key all access will remain blocked, everything My love, wisdom and omnipotence has created in the spiritual kingdom will remain hidden from you, without this key all knowledge of truth will remain concealed, you will lack all divine wisdom because without love you will be engulfed by darkness, since only love will give you light .... thus leading you into realisation. You would be incredibly mighty if you would heed My Words and live a life of love .... For love is also strength and nothing would be impossible for you if you would change your nature into love. Hence, with these Words I Am giving you the promise of an abundance of light and strength, of blissfulness, through the inflow of My Fatherly love, if you just unite yourselves with Me through deeds of love, if you just reciprocate My love for you .... Yet you don't believe My Words or you would all endeavour to live a life of love.

Why don't you put it to the test .... Let go off all selfish love, look around yourselves and wherever you see hardship try to bring help, wherever you find people suffering physical or psychological ailments try to heal them, give to them earthly and spiritually whatever they need, give them food and drink, and let go of your possessions if you thereby can ease the hardship of people in need. Try it and you will experience the truth of My Word, you will grow in strength and light, you will rise above your own earthly suffering, nothing will affect you which previously appeared to weigh you down, you will feel the strength of love in yourselves and the happiness of your union with Me, which you establish with every deed of love, will compensate you a thousand fold for what you have given away .... You will recognise Me and feel My hand holding you, you will feel the flow of My love's strength pour into you and, being spiritually brightly enlightened, you will be able to hear and behold what otherwise is hidden to you humans ....

Take the test and believe My Word, practise love .... and you will win Me and never ever lose Me again .... Believe Me, for I truly won't instruct you wrongly, I want you to become blessed, and since only love is able to turn you into happy beings I constantly just urge you to love ....

Yet then you will have to combat the spirit within you which is lacking all love and to which you owe your earthly existence .... He impels you to selfish love, he wants to extinguish the divine spark within you, he wants to prevent you from living a life of love. Hence you will have to fight it, that is, you have to fight your own cravings which only increase your selfish love and weaken the true love towards Me and your neighbour, so that you will be unable to experience the strength of love yourselves .... Fight against it and follow Me, accept these Words in your heart and act accordingly, and your fate will be the complete union with Me and infinite bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

‘Create and work while it is still day ....’

B.D. 3788 from June 2nd 1946, taken from Book No. 48

Create and work while it is still day .... Because for you, who fail to do so, a night of endless duration shall follow. There is still the possibility of realisation for all people, the light of day is still attainable, the darkness of the spirit can still be broken through, if only the human being has the will to do so; but then a time will come when the human being, i.e. the spiritual in him, is deprived of his free will and has to languish in darkness (of the spirit) for an endless time. And only those who long for the light escape this spiritual night, they enter the kingdom of light, they stand in fullest realisation even though they still dwell on earth, for the light they have found once, shall never go out but will illuminate their spirit forever and ever. Create and work while it is still day .... Yet the day is drawing to a close .... And therefore I constantly send light bearers to people, and all who are of good will recognise them as My messengers and gratefully accept what I offer them .... Knowledge of the pure truth .... Light from the heavens .... Food and drink from the spiritual kingdom .... so that they can diligently create and work, so that they can gather spiritual riches through labour of love and thus increase their knowledge in the time of evening, in the time which is still granted to them until the end, until nightfall. Labour and work with all diligence, for the time is not long. But in what alone do you create and work so as not to fall prey to the terror of the night? Only in obeying My commandment of love .... I have only given you one commandment .... which teaches of love for Me and for your neighbour, and if you obey it you will be eagerly active, as it is My will .... Then you create and work for your souls, if you create and work for your neighbour, if your love for Me impels you to also show love for your neighbour, to help him physically and spiritually and thus to comply with your original purpose .... to be active with love .... I only gave you one commandment, yet obeying this commandment results in every blessing, it shapes you into recipients of light, it makes you My children and thus My heirs who shall one day be able to rule and reign in the Father's house according to their will, which will then also be My will .... Create and work while it is still day .... For night comes according to the law of eternity for all who do not use the day according to My will .... Inactivity is death, and you can only live if you are restlessly active. But life also means to be enlightened, to be in the light, for the latter is absolutely necessary for true activity. And therefore, I gave you free will so that you become active of your own accord, so that you work independently, and I also gave you the ability to recognise which work corresponds to My will .... I gave you the day so that you can make full use of it, so that you can escape the night and walk in the light forever. But anyone who does not use his free will in the right way, who disregards all activity, will be surprised by the night and dwell in eternal darkness through his own fault .... And more urgently than ever I admonish you to work for yourselves, for your souls .... For the law of eternity must be fulfilled, a night will follow the day, and anyone who has not rescued himself from the spiritual darkness into the kingdom of light shall sink into the night of death again and shall not be able to free himself on his own. Therefore, work and work as long as there is still day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Help of Jesus Christ

The bridge into the spiritual kingdom .... Jesus ....

B.D. 5640 from March 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The bridge into the spiritual kingdom was built by Me when I descended to earth in order to redeem humanity. You all may cross this bridge if you want to follow Me .... And thus understand this right: Anyone who follows Me, who has chosen Me as his leader will be able and shall travel the same path as I have taken Myself, and he need not fear to go wrong. And thus even as a human being I maintained contact with the kingdom whence I had come. Admittedly, at first My origin was also hidden to Me, the human being Jesus, I lived on earth and knew no more than other people, yet My soul persistently searched for God, My soul constantly returned again to My true home .... to the kingdom of the most blessed spirits ....

And My yearning of love for God was so great that He came to Me and soon also informed Me of My mission on earth. Hence I already recognised at an early age that I and all other people were only guests on this earth, but that in the hour of death the spiritual kingdom was opened again for everyone, only its spheres were very different. I had this knowledge as a human being on earth and was often able to look into these spheres. I saw the abundant bliss as well as the extreme agony of the spiritual beings, and My soul yearned but it was also appalled. I beheld the spiritual world due to the degree of maturity My soul had already attained on earth, and therefore My soul was no longer endangered by entering the different spheres in the spiritual kingdom. I Myself had already established the bridge by changing My nature into love and was therefore able to safely cross the bridge into the spiritual kingdom.

And thus I want to explain to you that the love within you humans is always able and will establish a bridge into the spiritual kingdom, then not you yourselves but the spirit of God awakened through love will guide you across, because it wants to introduce you to the kingdom which is your true home and which offers you incomparable treasures, that you may receive in this kingdom .... Then you can also safely and without worry take a glance into the realm of darkness, for then your love will want to help all those who need this help. The bridge leading from earth into the spiritual kingdom has to be understood literally as well as figuratively .... I have prepared the path for you which will lead to God, which you shall take by following Jesus. However, through My resurrection on the third day I also demonstrated to you that I have overcome death, that there are no limits for the living, the immortal part in you, that your soul at all times may and shall stay in the spiritual kingdom and that My spirit, if you awakened it, will guide you into areas which otherwise are inscrutable for you. Yet it is different when such contacts to the spiritual kingdom are established without faith in Me, without spiritual aspiration and without love .... Then people enter a bridge without permission, hence they unlawfully take possession of it in order to glance into the kingdom, which is hidden from them. People like these do not acknowledge Me, consequently they cannot be on the bridge which I have established through My crucifixion .... Yet they also see a bridge leading into the spiritual kingdom, an illusion, which My adversary makes them believe because he wants to entice them to him, which he easily succeeds in doing .... by plunging you into ever deeper darkness, because no light can be found in darkness.

But anyone who desires light will be met by the beings of light, and they will provide him with an abundance of light, with the pure truth, which can only ever come from God's kingdom, from the kingdom of eternal truth. From the kingdom of darkness comes nothing but harm, from the kingdom of light only blessings; you shall close yourselves to the kingdom of darkness but open yourselves to the kingdom of light, for I Myself call to you from this kingdom: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. And if I call you to Me then you must also enter the bridge which I Myself have established from earth into the spiritual kingdom in order to smooth the path for you which leads you to ascent, to Me, but which can only ever be found through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Conscious detachment from the adversary through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7239 from December 26th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Your earthly progress will bring you little success if you do not find redemption from your bondage, if you do not become free from the sin of your former rebellion against Me .... if you do not find forgiveness through Jesus Christ, Who died for your sins on the cross. A walk on earth without Jesus Christ is in vain, only in the best case the human being can have gained so much knowledge of the divine redeemer on earth that it is then still possible for him in the beyond to recognize Him and call upon Him for grace and mercy. Then the path to further development is not barred to him, but he will no longer reach the aim he was able to achieve on earth. Nevertheless, there is still a great blessing in the fact that knowledge was once conveyed to him on earth, even though he was not faithful and therefore departed from earth unredeemed. But anyone who faithfully accepts this knowledge, who correctly attunes himself to Jesus Christ and thereby also establishes the right bond with Me, Who passed over earth in the human being Jesus for the sake of sinful humanity, can therefore already find forgiveness on earth, he can already be redeemed from sin and death on earth, and his physical death will then only be a conclusion of his life on this earth but at the same time the entrance into life which lasts forever. And then earthly life will also have been successful, for the human being will have sought unification with Me again of his own accord, from Whom he once voluntarily separated, which was the original sin, the apostasy from Me and the fall into the abyss as an appendage of My first-created being, the bearer of light, who opposed Me in arrogance, who wanted to rule over the host of spiritual beings which had come into being of his own will using My strength .... This bond is therefore released by the human being who consciously acknowledges Jesus Christ, who turns to Me again in Jesus and thereby has re-entered the right relationship with Me. Earthly life was given to him for this purpose, and therefore earthly life must also be lived in accordance with its purpose, that is..., so that the human being lives in love, that he attains the light of realization through his life of love, that he recognizes Jesus Christ as the divine redeemer in this light and, through Jesus Christ, takes the path to Me, Who embodied Myself in the human being Jesus, in order to create access to Me for you, in order to release you from the power which caused your downfall, which wants to ruin you and from which you therefore have to escape in order to become blissfully happy again. But if a person does not live in love then he will hardly recognize and want to believe in the mission of the man Jesus .... And yet, it is a blessing if he learns about Him, if Jesus' life and activity on earth does not remain unknown to him, for he will also be informed of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation in the life of the beyond .... Even in the kingdom of the beyond I take care of those who are unredeemed, and then it is a blessing if they know about Him and can now also take a stand there again on this knowledge .... But their free will also remains untouched in the kingdom of the beyond, for the soul has to decide for itself, it has to voluntarily seek the bond with Me in Jesus Christ again, it has to call upon Him itself and ask for redemption .... And therefore Jesus Christ cannot be proclaimed diligently enough on earth, and every proclaimer will be blessed by Me, after all, it applies to the salvation of countless souls which are still burdened by the original sin and also often depart from earthly life with this burden. And even if they don't want to believe, a good herald can bring about a change of heart in them which can already provide them with relief in the kingdom of the beyond and lead them to quicker realization. For there is no redemption from sin and death without Jesus Christ, and earthly life has only been lived appropriately when the human being has found Him and received forgiveness of his guilt from Him, then he can enter the spiritual kingdom liberated because he is united with Me again as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Help of Jesus Christ to walk the earth ....

B.D. 7497 from January 10th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Every human being needs the help of Jesus Christ if he wants to reach his aim in earthly life: to establish union with the God and creator of eternity, with his father. He is still far away from God when he begins earthly life as a human being .... For he has to establish unity with Him of his own free will, and this will therefore first has to decide in favour of Him, which requires a certain struggle which can also have a negative outcome. The human being must learn to recognize that there are two masters who want to possess him and that his own will is decisive as to which master should now take possession .... One master already has a certain right to him but cannot force him to remain with him, instead he must release the human being if he himself wants it and turns to the other master .... But a long battle can precede this final decision, because the former does not relinquish the soul without a fight but still struggles throughout earthly life for it to remain attached to him. Yet God Himself also fights for every soul, albeit in a different way than His adversary .... He knows that the human being has to be helped in this decision of will because he himself is too weak to direct and use his will correctly. And so that the human being's will can be strengthened, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself died on the cross under dreadful torment and suffering in order to thereby acquire a strengthened will for people. But he has to ask Jesus Christ for the benefit of this strengthening of will .... He absolutely has to take the path to Him and obtain the necessary strength from Him for right will and right action. Thus he must first want to use his earthly life according to God's will. In this way he already confesses the right lord, and then he will also be helped in every way .... Only through Jesus Christ is the path to the father .... And therefore the human being on earth first has to gain knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. And this knowledge is conveyed to him by the gospel, the good news about the path, the truth and the life .... the divine teaching of love, which is a clear guide to first attain right thinking and then also to muster the will to travel this path with the help of Jesus Christ .... For the good news teaches love, love recognizes Jesus Christ and also knows Him .... love establishes the union with Him, the supply of strength is assured, and the path to the father has been taken and also safely leads to the aim, to the final union with God, Who embodied Himself on earth in Jesus Christ in order to prepare people's path to Him, their God and father of eternity. But if the human being wants to reach the aim on earth, this also means a fight against the lord, who also has a right to him and does not want to release him .... The battle requires strength, and strength can only be obtained from Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... Without Him the human being is unable to fight the battle victoriously, he will always be defeated and his will will also be so weak that he will not be able to resist the adversary, he will be defeated by him, he will not be able to rise because he lacks strength .... And therefore he must call upon Jesus Christ and appeal to Him for strength and the supply of strength .... and he will not call in vain, for as soon as he is serious about escaping the adversary's power Jesus Christ stands beside him as a fighter, and he will truly be and remain victorious, for for this He died the bitter death on the cross, and He paid the purchase price for all souls which desire to come to Him .... Thus only the will is necessary, and in order for this to become strong the human being must also appeal to Jesus Christ and he will truly experience the strengthening of his will. The human being comes into the world without knowledge, then he will be offered all kinds of knowledge and then he must inwardly decide for what is right .... And as soon as only his will is good he will also want what is right and turn to a higher power to help him to always recognize and do what is right .... And then he will receive the right knowledge about Jesus Christ, about His divine teaching of love and about the path he has to take in order to attain his aim in life: the union with God in Jesus Christ .... which will re-establish the relationship which existed in the beginning .... that true images of God surround Him and create and work according to His will, which is now also the will of all His children ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Leadership ....

B.D. 3489 from June 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

He who feels weak, let him come to Me .... I will strengthen him .... And I will come close to anyone who believes himself to be abandoned and be his companion on all his paths through life. Yet he has to acknowledge Me, otherwise I cannot assist him because I respect the human being's free will. My aim is the unification of the apostate spiritual being with Me, but this must take place voluntarily. And therefore you must call for Me, you must desire My nearness yourselves and want to be guided by Me. And anyone who has the will turned towards Me within himself will never be abandoned by Me, because his striving is aimed at uniting with Me. But never ever shall you, who acknowledge Me, be despondent, never ever shall weakness of faith cause you to become discouraged, but a heartfelt thought, a brief appeal for strength and grace will always suffice and My love will not deny itself to you .... My strength flows to you and My hand guides you safely towards the aim .... And even if the path seems difficult for you, every step will be right by My hand, and you can cover the path without worry, for it is the right one if you have Me as your companion, and your will, your desire for Me, will earn you My guidance. In firm faith in this every weakness will fall away from you and you will walk safely and carefree through earthly life, for I can be close to you because you long for Me. And I am with everyone who deeply desires Me, and the more his love is for Me the more palpable I am. And therefore you humans can make earthly life easier for yourselves, for My nearness signifies strength, and anyone who is permeated by My strength masters life at all times, for he works and creates with Me, for Whom nothing is impossible ....

Amen

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Asking the blessing for everything you do ....

B.D. 5838 from December 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All your efforts are in vain if you don't ask for My blessing, if you don't first commend yourselves to Me that I Myself work with you. For only My cooperation will ensure the right success and the success of what you plan. Everything is done in vain if My blessing does not rest on it, and My blessing can only come upon you if you submit everything to Me and My will. And you, who are diligently active on earth and create and work, but not in connection with Me, your God and lord, your creator and father of eternity, should consider this. You, who stand apart from Me because you don't acknowledge Me, because you don't believe in Me and cannot gain this faith either because you don't have the will to do so, you believe yourselves capable of only exploiting earthly life for your selfish purposes .... I will not prevent you from your plan, and you can also gain treasures to the greatest extent .... earthly treasures which make you believe to be abundant and powerful .... But if My blessing does not rest on them they will only be detrimental to you, spiritually and earthly, for even if the body has an advantage the soul will only be burdened by that which serves the body's well-being. But My adversary creates the body's comfort in order to keep the soul in darkness and not to lose it. If only you humans wanted to believe that you only harm yourselves if you live on earth without Me .... if only you would recognize how much right you thereby grant My adversary and voluntarily give him what you deny Me .... You cannot become blessed without faith in Me, and you do not live forever on earth .... Therefore, whatever you achieve on this earth is useless for eternity if you exclude Me, if you don't request My blessing, which at the same time secures you protection from the enemy of your souls. You live indifferently and My name is only empty sound .... and if you think of Me because you have been taught about Me there is nevertheless so little faith in you that you are not afraid of the account you have to give to Me. And therefore you live your earthly life irresponsibly and can no longer make up for what you neglected in earthly life .... For time is irretrievably lost .... But if you would only seriously think about your creator for once, then the right thoughts would come to you because I will send them to you as soon as you seriously consult yourselves .... Yet you refrain from everything that could bring you closer to Me, but you use all your strength to create and work earthly and thereby only hand yourselves over to the one who will draw you down into his kingdom again, from which you have already descended .... You must not switch Me off if you don't want to get lost again for an infinitely long time .... You must believe in Me, your God and creator, you must call upon Me for My blessing, whatever you undertake .... But then blessings will also blossom for you, and then you will create and work for eternity, and your soul will reap the wealth you have acquired on earth .... goods that will last for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Withdraw of strength from the word of God ....

B.D. 5839 from December 29th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Always draw strength from My word and know that you need it, for whatever you start will only result in your salvation if you make use of My strength. Let Me speak to you first, or you can speak to Me yourselves so that I can answer you, so that I can give you My strength .... And thus I only say again and again, don't exclude Me from your thoughts, don't believe that you are able to use your strength alone, for you can also use your life energy, which is at your disposal, in the wrong way and then it will have been worthless for your soul. But I constantly provide you with strength by sending you My word, from which you can withdraw the strength if you need it .... You all value My word far too little, you all possess something precious and use it too little, and therefore your soul suffers hardship .... Don't sever your connection with Me but make it ever stronger so that you can feel secure, so that you will never be without strength; for you are surrounded by enemies whom you must oppose with My strength if you want to be victorious over them. You are surrounded by dark forces which try to push you away from Me. How do you want to resist them if you are powerless yourselves? Always request My strength and receive it by letting Me Myself speak to you. And no power of darkness will ever gain control over you. Only he is victorious who makes use of My strength, and only he makes use of My strength who constantly turns his thoughts towards Me and who therefore starts everything with Me and never walks without My blessing .... I speak to him at all times and his heart will not need to tremble, for it receives unmeasured strength and grace from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Create and work for eternity ....

B.D. 6305 from July 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is your task on earth to create and work for eternal life, and if you comply with this task your temporal fate will also be protected even though you will still have battles to cope with so as not to become tired in your striving for the spiritual goal. However, if you look upon Me as your Father and endeavour towards true childship you will also be in Fatherly care and your earthly life will have to progress such as the Father sees fit for His children. But its trust in the Father's love and care releases the child from all fear and worry, for it is full of confidence that its God and Creator, its Father of eternity, will direct everything just right .... And thus it can create and work for eternity, for it is full of love for Me which also expresses itself towards his fellow human being and thus carries out everything with a view to ascend, it strives towards Me fully consciously and lives a way of live in accordance with My will .... Every human being is given the opportunity to recognise his affiliation to Me because he is able to think about himself and his origin and this will mentally lead to realisation if he genuinely wants it. Thus every person can decide to work for eternal life, yet he is not compelled to do so .... Everyone can lay claim to My leadership and guidance, just as he can separate himself due to his own sense of strength and power, but then he will be isolated and far away, incapable of ascending .... but not striving for it either .... Then he will feel inwardly estranged from Me, he will not think of himself as My child nor look upon Me as the Father Who wants His child's love ....

And then he will not produce anything for eternal life but only ever see the world and its goods and desire them with all his senses. The burden of life will indeed weigh heavily upon him in the beginning because I want to guide his thoughts to Me, yet this burden will become increasingly lighter because someone else will take it from him and give him whatever he strives for .... but also claims his soul in return. Create and work for eternity and do not pay so much attention to earthly life but accept it with all its burdens and troubles, for they are truly only for your own good, just as everything that happens to you merely serves those of you in gaining perfection who dedicate yourselves to Me, who strive for unity with Me, for My presence .... who hand yourselves over to Me so that I can take care of you .... You have truly chosen the best part even though you lack earthly pleasures, yet you will be rewarded in My kingdom and receive so abundantly that you will want to share it again and also be able to do so for your own happiness. Do not forget that earthly life is only given to you so that you will find the entry into My kingdom .... but which you sincerely have to look for .... and not that you forget your task and get caught in the mire of the world, so that you won't succumb to My opponent's temptations to stay away from your true destination .... Be aware that an arduous path is the right path but that I Myself will always meet you on this path, that I will take over your guidance and safely lead you to your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Vineyard work to remedy spiritual distress

Great spiritual need calls for busy vineyard work ....

B.D. 5817 from December 2nd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The adversity of the time dictates that extremely eager work is done in My vineyard, because only through such can this adversity be controlled, because only then will the adversity be remedied if people succeed in winning people for My kingdom, if they pay little attention to the earthly kingdom and only ever try to reach Me. People no longer know much about Me and My kingdom, their ears certainly hear about it but their hearts know nothing and thus they often pass by where knowledge could be given to them, where My kingdom could be made so vivid to them that they would be inspired to seek it. And therefore only one thing is necessary, to present to people the knowledge that an everlasting kingdom awaits them after the death of their body and that this kingdom corresponds to their earthly way of life. People's attention must be drawn to their end, to death, which they cannot escape and which will approach them all extremely quickly; it must be explained to them that their existence does not end with the death of their body, that they cannot pass away even if they have discarded their earthly cover; It has to be made credible to them that there is death but not a complete passing away, and that death is a state of torment, of strengthlessness and lightlessness, but which the soul, because it is incorruptible, has to endure; but how, on the other hand, an exceedingly blissful state, an eternal life in beatitude, can also be granted to the soul if the human being creates and works on earth for life in eternity ..... if he already strives for Me and My kingdom on earth and thus is also introduced by Me into that kingdom after his death, where there is only light and strength and bliss .... Diligent work still has to be done by My servants who only speak on My behalf and for Me, who are to tell ignorant people what they know, what knowledge I Myself have given them precisely for this work in My vineyard. The hardship is unspeakably great because people do not think about their actual purpose of earthly life, because they only live for this earthly world and because they are indifferent to everything that comes after their physical death. Their remorse is immeasurably deep when they realize in the kingdom of the beyond what they were able to achieve and did not achieve through their own fault. And therefore they shall be addressed and made aware of the great responsibility towards their souls, therefore My kingdom shall be presented to them; they shall not remain without knowledge of what is in store for them if they don't change, if they don't direct their senses spiritually but only live according to the world. They shall experience that this world will pass away with all its treasures and that everything their heart is attached to will be taken away from them .... but that which they have acquired in spiritual treasures will remain with them. For no one shall be able to say that he has remained unwarned and unadmonished. Each one shall be made aware of Me and My kingdom through My servants .... and blessed are those who hear and strive to attain My kingdom .... blessed are those who believe what is proclaimed to them .... For they shall live, though they suffer earthly death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine revelations oblige .... near end ....

B.D. 4943 from July 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

To be taught the truth by Me is a gift of grace which also obliges. Anyone who is richly blessed by Me should give away of his possessions to his neighbour, otherwise he is not worthy of My love and grace. And anyone who is showered with My grace is always willing to share himself and make his fellow human beings happy, just as he himself is happy. Whoever receives My gift of grace also stands in love and passes on what he receives. From this it follows that when I reveal Myself .... for My revelations are extraordinary gifts of grace .... I also want them to be spread because they are of immense value for the soul's development. Understand, you humans, that My word is the surest means for you to achieve your aim on earth of becoming perfect. Thus My word must not be disregarded, the living water must not dry up in the sand but a riverbed must be created for it, it must continue to flow so that many can refresh themselves with the water of life which flows from the fountainhead of My love. When I reveal Myself to a person it means that I give him proof of My existence and My bond with the person who longs for Me in his love, I reveal Myself to him, I let him become aware of My presence, as it were, I make Myself known to him .... But anyone who has recognized Me himself also gives testimony of Me to his fellow human beings, and this is what every revelation is intended to do .... to awaken or strengthen faith in Me. And since I wrestle for the souls of all My living creations, since I want to win everyone for eternal life, all people shall also gain knowledge of Me, they shall know that the eternal deity expresses Itself to every person, because all are children of Its eternal love. Therefore, every revelation on My part shall be mentioned, and fellow human beings shall believe in it or not according to their way of life, because the soul's ascent is a matter of free will .... He who receives much shall also distribute much. If the recipient of My word is now destined for a teaching activity, the measure of grace will be inexhaustible, for now he is active as a mediator between Me and people, he has a mission to fulfil, to pass on extensive knowledge, the spreading of which has now become necessary in order to reduce the great spiritual hardship. This knowledge concerns the purification of My already very educated teaching and, at the same time, the plight of people who live on this earth during the last days and are in a pitiable state due to their lack of knowledge, who, due to a way of life which contradicts My will and due to misguided thinking, are in utmost danger of being lost in the end for eternal times. By conveying the truth and through admonitions and warnings still willing people can be guided onto the right path, and this is the mission of the one who is taught by Me, who is the mediator between Me and people through the inner word. For this reason the knowledge which this mediator receives comprises for the first time the pure gospel, the unadulterated teaching of love, which I Myself, as the man Jesus, brought to people on earth in order to lead them back from the path of ruin they were walking on to the path of salvation. The gospel shall be proclaimed to people again as purely as it once came forth from Me, and therefore I must send My word from above to people again, they must receive it directly from Me, albeit conveyed through the mouth of a human being, because the presently educated teaching is used as My adversary's means and therefore causes more harm than spiritual success for the soul. I know how necessary it is to convey the pure truth to people, and I bless everyone who, in the last days before the end, as My true disciple, as an apostle of the end time, supports the spreading of the pure teaching, who wants to fight against error and lies and makes himself available to Me for this purpose. And thus the transmission of the pure gospel to earth through the inner word is a great revelation of Myself, for I Myself am the word, and whatever emanates from Me must also testify to Me as what I am. My word is recognizable to everyone who wants to recognize it .... But furthermore, the end is near .... And I want to announce this to people through seers and prophets. Therefore I need people again who, driven by My spirit, repeatedly present to their fellow human beings that the last time has come. They do not speak for themselves, they speak on My behalf, as My messengers, and this mission is also important, for people are to be disturbed from their rest and pointed to the future, which is decisive for eternity for every individual. My servants on earth will not have much success, nevertheless they shall be restlessly active and not miss any opportunity to mention My extraordinary working, My revelations. They shall make use of every day as industrious labourers in the vineyard of the lord, for time is pressing. The end is near, so near that you cannot believe it. Therefore call out to each one: Work and do while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's call for workers in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5875 from February 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

To be active in My kingdom is the most beautiful task for all of you who still live on earth, because it results in an eternal reward and because then you will be My co-workers and thus carry out an activity which corresponds to My will. As soon as you decide to work spiritually your earthly life will be steered into a path where you will obviously recognize My guidance. You will find entrance into spiritual circles or form such yourselves, you will be brought together with people who cultivate other than just earthly thoughts, you will be introduced to spiritual knowledge so that you will also be able to carry out your activity on earth, and you will visibly experience My blessing in spiritual as well as earthly work because you will now not create and work alone but with Me. No one shall believe that he is not needed for the work in My vineyard .... I ask every individual whether he wants to serve Me, whether he wants to take care of the hardship of erring souls and be active with My support for their salvation .... I give every individual the promise that I will bless his work, and for every individual who wants to serve Me I have already prepared his field of work where he can work according to his strength for his own and his fellow human beings' blessing. And I need everyone .... The work to remedy the spiritual hardship is so extremely important and urgent that I repeatedly request your help, because it can only be done by people who, in union with Me and in My will, want to bring the gospel to their fellow human beings, who take care of their spiritual hardship, who revive their faith or want to strengthen a still weak faith, who encourage their fellow human beings to establish a living bond with Me and give them an example of the blessing of a person's intimate bond with Me. I need all of you who believe in Me .... For countless people go through life without faith in Me, and every one of them needs a fellow human being who helps him to believe again. I Myself can certainly influence such unbelieving people indirectly but not directly, yet I take pity on their adversity and, in order to help them, I want to put them in contact with you and send you abundant working material with which you can now be effectively and beneficially active if you are willing to serve Me and bring help to your fellow human beings. The time is approaching its end and therefore I still need many workers beforehand and therefore call upon all of you urgently: Remember your brothers and sisters on earth who have not yet entered your path, who only walk the paths of the world and can never reach their aim on this path .... Remember those who are without faith and try to make the power of your faith effective in them .... pray for them and always include them more in your thoughts so that they will feel the strength of your love and also listen to you without resistance when you bring them My word .... so that they will think and can now also be influenced from above .... Do the preliminary work which has to be done by people on earth so that the forces of light can then intervene and in turn try to influence those who are still far away, who only see the world and want to deny a spiritual kingdom, to come to faith .... You can contribute much to this as soon as you consciously offer yourselves to Me for service .... For then I will direct all your steps and provide you with everything you need to work for Me and My kingdom .... I will give you light and strength Myself so that you will also be able to distribute My word again, which is light and strength for everyone who listens to it, receives it with his heart and makes an effort to live it out. For this one has now also been won for My kingdom, he will not be lost when the last end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Receiving the power to work from the divine word ....

B.D. 3930 from December 7th 1946, taken from Book No. 49

With My word you also receive the strength to work and create spiritually and earthly. And therefore eliminate every worry as to how you will be able to master your life. Just constantly refresh yourselves with My word, let yourselves be fed and watered by Me, and you will truly be relieved of every worry, for I Myself will take care of you by smoothing your earthly paths and also securing your spiritual well-being by guiding you through every spiritual and earthly danger. I want you to receive My word, that you are always and constantly informed by My word, that you gain truthful knowledge which only My word can impart to you. I want you to mature in spirit, to educate yourselves to become leaders of your fellow human beings, and you can only do this by constantly receiving My word, which kindles the brightest light in you and enables you to bring help to your brothers for their souls. If you want to be suitable servants for Me on earth, you yourselves must have knowledge which is conveyed to you by Me, and therefore you must always and constantly let Me speak to you so that I can instruct you anew again and again, so that I can speak through you to people who, still blind in spirit, urgently need enlightenment. And thus, if you want to be diligently active for Me you must never ever switch off My word, you must accept it wherever the opportunity is offered to you, you must use every hour for eager soul work and I will arrange everything else for you so that you will never ever need to worry about earthly things. I need you to work indirectly on people who no longer allow My direct activity due to their lack of faith. I need you to revive this weak faith through your activity for Me. Speak to your fellow human beings of My love and everlasting care for their souls, speak to them of My working through you, convey My word to them and thus also transfer the strength to those who receive My word with their hearts .... And you yourselves will be exceptionally strengthened spiritually and earthly, you will fulfil your earthly task with joy and devotion, you will be spiritually successful and your earthly paths will also be paved for you, for I provide for My labourers with all love and care, as I have promised. Draw from the well of My love, refresh yourselves with the water of life, receive strength in abundance by receiving My word from above, immerse yourselves in the rich treasure of grace and lift it up, let My words of love ring in your ears again and again, accept them with your heart and strengthen yourselves with them at all times, and leave every worry to Me, for I am your father Who knows all His children's needs and will also meet them as it is good for you. And if My fatherly love gives you this promise, then no longer fear earthly adversity but only think of the adversity of your fellow human beings' souls and seek to bring them help .... And My blessing will accompany you on all paths and you will reach your aim, because I am the one Who guides and leads you and by Whose hand you can walk carefree if only you strive to fulfil My will, if you want to serve Me on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Constant contact with God ensures success ....

B.D. 5785 from October 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Request My support in everything you undertake .... Don't start anything without Me, take no path without Me, always let Me lead the way, then I will be your goal which you will safely reach. And thus you shall also come to Me with all spiritual concerns and you will always receive the correct advice, for then you will be guided by My spirit .... you cannot do anything but think and behave correctly and successfully work for Me and My kingdom .... And it will always appear as if you speak and proceed of your own will. For I don't manifest Myself so obviously that you would feel compelled to comply with My will, and yet it is My will which is now expressing itself through you. If you first commend all works, thoughts and spoken words to Me, you may also rest assured of My influence, yet this very first contact with Me is essential in order to feel My will in you and to think, speak and act accordingly. And therefore you need not worry that you won't be able to carry out the work for Me and My kingdom as long as you don't regard it as an occupation but only ever want to be of service to Me, and thus, as My servants, remain in constant contact with Me in order to receive My instructions. For the latter occurs through your heart into which My spirit will place feelings which will cause you to act in accordance with My will .... And then all your beginnings will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual community .... Working together ....

B.D. 5091 from March 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

A spiritual community can convey many blessings, for it distributes My Gospel in Words and deeds. However, I do not call members of an organised association a spiritual community but only people who, in spiritual unity, strive towards the same goal of coming close to the truth and thus to Me and who therefore also want to lead their fellow human beings to Me. For organisations can also exist without truly spiritually striving members, and I only acknowledge spiritual aspiration as the right desire for Me. An association of people who seriously discuss spiritual topics, whose hearts silently love Me and desire a bond with Me, is a spiritual community which is pleasing to Me, My blessing will always rest on them and the very spiritual work they do will be blessed by Me. Wherever they are together I dwell among them and guide their thoughts in the right direction, I intervene in their conversations Myself by expressing Myself through a person who is particularly devoted to Me, who will then effectively instruct the others and also be acknowledged because the others will feel that I Am at work, because they will feel addressed by Me and will be convinced that what they hear is true. A spiritual community will always render Me a great service, for they will achieve far more than an individual person can achieve by only working for Me and My kingdom. Yet every individual person should try to gain followers for Me, every individual should strive to expand the spiritual community and always lead new labourers to Me because many reapers will be needed during the last days and the work that still needs to be accomplished before the end will require every effort. Together you can be very successful, for people will always look at a solitary person with distrust and lend little credence to his words. However, as soon as other like-minded people join him everything he says and does becomes significant. Therefore try to find like-minded people with the same striving to be of service to Me and to do redemptive work on earth during the last days before the end. By doing so you will gain very much yourselves but you will also gain new souls which you can lead to Me, which you can prepare for their mission of becoming co-workers for Me and My kingdom, to whom you can proclaim the Gospel so that they will pass it on to all those who suffer spiritual hardship. What is not possible for an individual person can be achieved by many; they will find it easier to be believed and will always be strengthened by Me, for I bless all who are of service to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working for God and His kingdom ....

B.D. 4171 from November 20th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And thus a new phase will start for you, a time full of activity for Me and My kingdom .... and you will not regret having offered your services to Me, since you will feel the blessing of the work, you will multiply My church, the flock of believers around you will expand and you will be able to teach, and My spirit will constantly manifest itself through you. You will always be certain of My presence and this awareness will make you confident amongst people of hostile mind. For it will remain a battle of truth against lies and error, because humanity is already too deeply entangled in the latter. Nevertheless, people will, at first, be willing to listen to you, and the time following the natural disaster should be used since you will be able to speak freely, unimpeded by worldly power. Therefore I will need faithful labourers during this time and always seek to invite them, since help needs to be brought to those whose hearts were hardened by their destiny, and who will be looking far and wide for an explanation of the cause and purpose for this natural event. They will still possess a modest faith in divine justice, and then it will be particularly important to provide people with what they long for: light and strength, fullest understanding and a living faith in Me Myself, Who will speak to them through you in order to draw them close to Me and gladden them with My presence.

You will have to achieve a great task and thus will be guided in a worldly way such that you can fully devote yourselves to this task. Therefore you should be ready and wait for My call, and not hesitate to comply with it when you hear it within yourselves. Because I will guide your fate such that you can be at My disposal at any time, because time demands urgent action. You, however, shall receive clear vision and perception and will therefore always know where your work is needed and where it can be successful. I will lead the people to you whom I want to help through you and who are willing to believe .... For I will take care of all people who are not entirely subject to My adversary and who are of good will. I will approach them with My Word, I want to speak to them through you, and I want to win them over for Me and My kingdom, so that they will be eternally blessed.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fight with the sword of the mouth ....

B.D. 7459 from November 19th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

I have promised you My help when you will have to fight with the sword of the mouth .... for I have said: "Do not worry about what you will speak, I will put the words in your mouth ....", that is, My Spirit within you will speak through you when the time comes. And it will come, for you will have to answer for yourselves as soon as you stand up for Me, as soon as you fight for Me and My kingdom, as soon as you confess My name before all the world. Then you will be called to account and responsibility will be demanded of you, and you will be able to give it without hesitation and without inhibitions, for My spirit will drive you and fill you with strength to openly confess Me and My name before all the world. It will not be difficult for you to speak, for I will put the words into your mouth and they will ignite, they will have an effect like a sword which is used in open battle, and these battles of yours will also be victorious, for people will not be able to say anything back to you because you will strike them with the words I let you speak through your spirit. And this will be necessary in the coming battle of faith where the adversary will try to eradicate all faith in Me in Jesus Christ, where he will try to portray everything as nonsensical or legendary in order to take away the weak faith of those who would very easily succumb to their speeches if they didn't have you to strengthen them, if they didn't hear you speak and were astonished by the speeches themselves and their effect. And this will strengthen their weak faith when they realize that you beat the opponents with your words and that they are unable to answer you. But the spirit in you must be able to work which gives your speeches the igniting power, which will visibly strengthen you and let you become victors from the battle of words. And only a thought of Me is enough that I may support you so that your spirit will stir and help you where you would be too weak on your own, for intellect alone cannot master these opponents, My working through the spirit must be allowed to overcome the opponent, and this spirit from Me in you will truly compel you to speak so that you will present yourselves as zealous representatives of My name and cannot be convinced by the opponent that he is in the right. And this shall happen for the sake of the many weak believers who need strong supports to cling to in order to strengthen themselves and offer resistance when the going gets tough. Therefore do not fear the coming battle of faith but trust in My support when you are called to account for your actions, for your work in My vineyard. And I will truly stand by you and 'put the words in your mouth' as I have promised you. For there is still hard work to be done and I need all of you to do it, who want to serve Me .... I need you, but I also give you the necessary strength and My support so that you will never be at the adversary's mercy without My protection and help but will be able to defeat him in every battle of words which will still be fought for the sake of My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Relief action on souls beyond ....

B.D. 6597 from July 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The task you have been given does not only extend to the people on this earth but the souls in the kingdom of the beyond have also been handed over to you for care, because they, too, shall be given the opportunity to be listeners of the divine word, so that they can still make up for what they missed in earthly life .... so that they can still find Jesus Christ there, to Whom they have to take refuge in their adversity and distress in order to be redeemed by Him .... Love must also be preached to those souls above all .... because only then can their state of misery be remedied when they acquire strength of love through their own will to love and only then can they be active in love. In the last days before the end the redemption of the souls in the beyond is urgent insofar as they are more willing to accept the divine word, the gospel of love, than people on earth .... and because every soul which ascends in the beyond can also be a helper for earthly people again if it can now mentally influence them and its endeavour will only ever be the spiritual salvation of those. Where the influence from person to person is only weak, there the influence from the spiritual kingdom can still be successful if people think of deceased loved ones and these have already reached a certain degree of light .... to which you, as diligent labourers in the vineyard of the lord, can help them. This is why your task is particularly important, and again and again you will be admonished to fulfil it conscientiously, so that such a rare opportunity can be exploited where the souls of the kingdom of the beyond can fetch nourishment for their souls .... Although the same nourishment is also offered to them in the spiritual kingdom, their degree of realization is so low at first that they cannot assess what is offered to them and are more inclined to reject it, as they did on earth. But through your mediation they feel addressed and charitably touched, because God's grace makes it particularly easy for them to attain faith in the last days, and because these immature souls are still too closely connected to earth, so that they are also easier to influence from earth .... just as, conversely, their efforts will later also be directed towards people on earth whom they know to be in the same need after their physical death. These connections and actions of help from earth to the beyond and vice versa have always been possible, but in view of the end they become more evident when people are aware of their task and lovingly commit themselves to the salvation of the souls .... Then God particularly blesses such connections, and His blessing also means success. The number of souls still struggling for salvation is endless, but God's love and grace is also endless .... But a ray of love also has an endless effect .... And if a person only commits himself with love for the redemption of a single soul, this redeemed soul will then be able to be active again to such an extent that countless souls will find salvation through it again .... And therefore, with your help countless souls can still be saved before the end. You should always remember this and always bear the significance of your task in mind. Then you will be eagerly at work and tirelessly create and work for God and His kingdom .... And God will bless your work, for you will help Him to bring back that which is already eternally separated from Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to work diligently for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3931 from December 8th 1946, taken from Book No. 49

Wherever the opportunity presents itself you should speak for Me and spread My word, for the adversity is great around you and you can only control it by directing your fellow human beings' thoughts towards Me .... I alone can remedy the earthly adversity, and I will also do so as soon as people themselves make an effort to remedy the spiritual adversity for the time being. They are at the end of the abyss and only their own will can pull them back from it, for they themselves must first want Me to assist them with My grace and strength, then My love will also be willing to help them even in the last hour. And therefore you must proclaim My teaching to them, you must inform them of My word so that they will know My will and, if they faithfully accept My word, also try to live it out. And their souls will be saved .... And if you now know how urgently necessary your work is for My kingdom, if you are willing to carry out this work in order to help your fellow human beings' souls, it will also be understandable to you that you, as being in My service, are well provided for, for every employer looks after his servants, and the more caring the more willing instruments they are to him. And thus I call to you again and again: Drop all earthly worries, only concern yourselves with your spiritual work, be eagerly active for Me and I will do everything else for you which you need for earthly life, I will smooth your earthly paths and lead you unharmed to the aim. Every day is precious, and every day you shall work for Me and My kingdom. Again and again people will get in your way who walk along without knowledge of their earthly task, again and again you will be able to convince yourselves of your fellow human beings' weak faith or complete unbelief, and again and again you will therefore be able to speak for Me, you will be able to testify to My great love and mercy .... which has made itself known to you through the transmission of My word. Everywhere you will have the opportunity to speak in My name and to give clarification, to correct misguided teachings and thus to spread the fullest truth, as is My will. How people adjust themselves is up to them, yet without the transmission of pure truth, without knowledge of My word, the path to Me is hidden from them, and you shall point them to the right path, you shall proclaim My teaching of love to them and urge them to change to love .... If they listen to these admonitions they will already be helped spiritually and physically, for as soon as they make an effort to live in love their earthly situation will also improve, because then I will no longer need such harsh means of education to help them once they have entered the path which leads to Me .... the path of love .... Admonish them to love and point them to Me and My earthly way of life, since I have exemplified a life of love to them and commanded them to live as My followers. Insistently present to them the blessing of a life of love and the great danger of their spiritual downfall if they don't observe My commandment of love, and announce to them the near end .... and thus the urgency of a change to love .... And you will be industrious labourers in My vineyard and can be sure of every support on My part. You yourselves need not worry about your earthly fate, as it is good for you I will guide you and the assurance of My protection can truly be your guarantee for a carefree existence if only you have firm, unshakable faith. But whom I have hired as a labourer, his faith will also attain the strength which is necessary for his ministry on earth .... I will not leave you in adversity of body and soul who want to serve Me, and My strength will flow through you if you dedicate yourselves to My name .... And therefore don't fear and tremble, don't be afraid of earthly burdens but lift your eyes and hearts to Me, Who blesses you on earth, because your love for Me and your neighbour impels you to be active for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Work while it's still day ...."

B.D. 7433 from October 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

The night is long, which will end the day, and in this night no one will be able to work any longer, because he will lack light and strength .... Therefore work while it is still day, for night will come irrevocably upon you humans who let the day pass by unused. And do you know what the endless long night consists of? You, who now walk the earth as a human being and can be active in free will, you will be banished anew into the solid form if you fail in this earthly life, if you therefore let the day, where you can work in light and strength, pass by unused and the endless long night will befall you. You will lose earthly life and therefore also all vitality, but you will also lose your self-awareness and have to go through the works of creation of the new earth again in countless substances and first freeze in complete inactivity because you are powerless. You will no longer be able to create and work according to your own will, but after an infinitely long time of darkness you will certainly awaken to a small life in order to slowly mature again according to divine will, so that one day you will once again approach the light of the morning. But this night will be so dreadfully painful and last so dreadfully long that you will still be warned of this night because you can avert it from you if you still use the short time of day to the best of your ability and earnestly strive for light. "Work while it is still day ...." the lord calls to you, "for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work ...." when you are deprived of light and strength, when you languish powerless in darkness and the light of day cannot shine down on you for a long time. The last hours of the day are still upon you, you are still in possession of strength and can make use of even the smallest realization you have gained and increase the light .... You can still work, for even the powerless human being has so much strength at his disposal if he wants to use it for the salvation of his soul in order to avert the endless night from it, which lies solely in the human being's will. For where the will is good God is also ready with His strength and His light to help him with the work which he alone is unable to properly accomplish. But the will must be present to still be able to gain everything possible from the day, so that the night does not overtake him and find him asleep .... in a sleep from which he will not awake for eternity .... Don't let sleep become a sleep of death, seek the light of day and work diligently at your work of deliverance, for the day will only last a short time before it gives way to an eternally long night. But anyone who works in all earnestness and diligence need not fear the night, for he will pass into a new day where no more night will follow for ever .... Believe that you are about to end the day .... Believe that an aim has been set for humanity, that only a short time remains until this aim .... And then the day will turn into night for those who did not work while it was day .... and the sun of the spirit will rise into a bright day for all who worked diligently in the vineyard of the lord, who worked on themselves, who made use of the day and were diligent until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right use of the time of grace before the end

Only a short time of grace left ....

B.D. 7207 from November 14th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Every day takes you closer to the end .... And no matter how busily you create and work for your earthly well-being, your concern will be futile, for you will be unable to enjoy the benefits of your efforts, everything you think you can buy will be taken from you again and you will only have few possessions to take with you into the spiritual kingdom when everything is over, because you will only keep the spiritual goods which your soul acquired on earth. But regardless of how often this is said to you, you don't believe in an approaching end and your efforts to attain the possession of this world increase every day and render you incapable of working at improving your soul. Yet were you able to foresee that you only have a short time of grace left, you would be alarmed at how close you are to the end .... But earthly life moves on every day, one day goes by like the other, and this is precisely what makes you question predictions of this nature .... However, from one day to the next everything will change, suddenly you will be confronted by events which will completely disrupt every individual person's life, all of you will be pulled out of your usual composure and be faced with great dangers, you will have to defer your earthly work and plans because you will simply no longer be capable of dealing with them in view of the imminent dangers caused by human will .... For nations will rise up against each other and it will only take something minor to burst into flames which will threaten to destroy everything. And then people will forget even more what their actual earthly task consists of .... But neither will they be able to continue with their work and activity, but instead only try to save themselves and their belongings, thus only consider their physical life and comfort but never their souls. And they will have to recognise that they are powerless in the face of all events which threaten to befall them. They will appeal to people's common sense and good will but to no avail ....

On the human side everything will take its dreaded course, but the divine side will intervene and thereby shatter human plans; nevertheless, people will not be spared what they had anxiously feared: They will suffer the loss of all that which keeps their hearts imprisoned, they will lose everything and will be able to learn to recognise the power of God in a natural event of incredible magnitude .... For the Scriptures will fulfil themselves .... And you human are on the verge of this whether you want to believe it or not. You carelessly only ever create and work for your physical needs and will lose everything .... But you do not care to satisfy the needs of your souls .... For then you will need not fear anything even in this forthcoming time, because then you will be taken care of by the One Whom you have already accepted, otherwise you would not want to consider your soul. For this reason the forthcoming event will be mentioned to you time and again, time and again His Words will sound as an admonition and warning, and time and again the foolishness and pointlessness of your earthly striving will be brought home to you. You only need to listen to it and arrange your life accordingly, and you would be able to face the coming events calmly and without worry .... Don't be too delighted about the apparent calm and the prosperity in an earthly sense, don't stifle your conscience with earthly pleasures .... They are only illusions which will quickly fade away, for you humans will watch powerlessly as everything comes upon you and be unable to defend yourselves from it .... But is has been announced to you often enough, giving you enough time to consider it and change yourselves. The fact that you fail to do so will have a dreadful effect on you, for God's plan is irrevocably fixed and, as soon as the time has come, it will be implemented, as it has been determined since the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly advancement .... Spiritual decay ....

B.D. 6574 from June 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everything bears the sign of decay, even if you humans believe to be busy in building up and promoting .... Even if you incessantly work in the earthly sphere. You only contribute towards bringing the end ever closer, for all your striving is only aimed at earthly goals, and thereby you unfit the earth for its actual purpose of serving you for the maturing of the soul. For you only pay attention to that which serves the body's well-being, and you often prevent the bound spiritual substances in matter from maturing or serving by unlawfully dissolving creations in order to make them useful for your earthly plans. And what appears to be a blossoming, a progress, is in reality a chaotic state, because the development of the soul alone proves the extent to which divine order prevails .... and because this has reached a minimum which again proves the infringements against the eternal order. Much matter will certainly still be induced to serve, natural creations will certainly be dissolved for the purpose of earthly use, much spiritual matter will certainly be released from hardest form again and can continue its path of development in a new form, yet no human being will think of this but only of the earthly advantage which accrues to him when he uses matter .... And the spiritual substance in matter senses this earthly-oriented attitude and often only reluctantly gets ready to serve, which shows in the fact that disadvantages upon disadvantages become recognisable, that damage becomes apparent which now causes people much trouble and annoyance. For the spiritual feels it when its serving purpose has not been considered first, and therefore it often opposes. These are not blessed works which come into being through human hands without any spiritual attitude .... and however tremendous they appear and command people's admiration in view of their construction .... And their existence will not last long even if people believe to have created works of permanence .... And it is precisely this increased will to work with only an earthly goal that goes so far as to carry out plans which only add to the chaos .... a chaos that now makes itself felt in a spiritual and earthly manner. For people's spiritual state is remarkably low and expresses itself in complete faithlessness and in a loveless way of life. And the earthly decay manifests itself in such a way that people can no longer protect themselves against life-threatening influences which, however, are triggered off by people themselves who work on behalf of the one who wants to destroy everything in order to liberate the bound spiritual and to attach it to himself again. And people willingly offer him their hands for this, for he gives them the illusion of great earthly successes, he is an expert at directing their thoughts towards wrong goals and is always listened to, because people do not want to know about a spiritual purpose of their earthly life, because their thoughts are only directed towards earthly things and because the spiritual which they liberate in a god-opposing will, cannot exert a good influence on these people either, who disturb its course of development. It is seeming advancement and yet decline, a fall, as it cannot be imagined to be worse .... And only a few people have an open eye for this because they carry God in their heart and regard earthly life only as a passage to actual life in eternity .... And this is also continually pointed out to these so that they can still influence their fellow human beings as far as this is possible .... People strive ever higher and sink ever lower. And they should let themselves be warned by the apparent advancement they experience .... They should think and not live blindly from day to day, for creation did not come into being for purely earthly purposes, although it serves people, yet its actual purpose is spiritual development which, however, is now completely disregarded, and thus the earth no longer fulfils its purpose either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

End of redemption period .... last judgment ....

B.D. 4292 from May 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The earth will become a place of judgement for all people who stand aloof from Me .... I will pronounce My judgement according to justice, and woe to those who are condemned .... the earth will swallow them up, and their souls will have to walk the path anew through the creations of the new earth. This has been decided since eternity. For the law of order must be maintained, but at the end of a redemption period this law will be completely disregarded, which always means destruction. Humanity, which lives in such a time, completely contradicting My order, also falls prey to this destruction, yet it is always only the external form which falls victim to destruction, but the soul, the spiritual substance, only transforms itself, i.e. it takes on other external forms, and this act of transformation is the judgment .... The spiritual, which was already in a state of a certain freedom, will again be bound in solid matter. This act will take place because My wisdom recognized it from eternity as a means to guide the spiritual substance, which is completely distant from Me, back to Me again. It is a means which is certainly effective but unspeakably painful for the spiritual substance and which I therefore only use when there is no other possibility of approaching Me. Yet as long as a period of salvation continues I will always point to its end in order to motivate people to still seek an approach to Me on earth, in order to make the significance of earthly life clear to them and to induce them to live in accordance with My law of order. But humanity does not want to believe in an end, it regards earthly life as an end in itself, not, as it is, as a means to an end, and therefore it remains untouched by the ideas of those who know about My plan of eternity and are to have an enlightening effect on earth on My behalf.

(6.5.1948) These are instructed in truth, they have been taught by the voice of the spirit according to My will, their thinking is enlightened, and thus they will only ever recognize what is right and know how to distinguish error from truth. They are initiated into My plan of salvation, full understanding will dawn upon them, and they will also have knowledge of the course of an earth period, they will recognize the time of the end from people themselves and from the phenomena which have been predicted since the beginning of a redemption period and thus be able to point to it with certainty if they, as My representatives on earth, are to proclaim My word to people. You humans should listen to them and take their words to heart, for they are given to you by Me, I Myself speak to you through their mouths, it is My spirit which speaks through them because I Myself want to instruct you, because I want to admonish and warn you for the sake of your souls. You should remember the end, you should remember your imperfection and the great gulf which still exists between you and Me if you are sinful. You should entrust yourselves to Me so that I Myself will take care of you, and you should see in Me your saviour from spiritual adversity. Only spiritual adversity prompts Me to let you fall into earthly adversity, for if you listen to My servants My words will enter your heart more easily and you will also consider an end of this earth possible. You will have more contact with the spiritual kingdom from where help will come to you in many ways. Try to win Me as father and loving God for you, yet don't let Me become a punishing judge for you .... Win My love for yourselves so that you need not fear My wrath, overcome matter so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom carefree, and create and work so that you will become blissfully happy. For the time is short when you can still work, the day is coming when everyone will be called to account, when I will judge the living and the dead, when I will separate the goats from the sheep, when every soul's fate will be according to its will .... bliss in the kingdom of free spirits or renewed banishment into matter, a state of hell which you should fear and from which I want to protect you .... Therefore believe what comes to you through the mouth of the seers and prophets .... believe that it is My word which is given to you from above so that you may find grace and be saved on the day of judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The great tribulation gives proof of the truth of the divine word ....

B.D. 3786 from May 31th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

The path to the eternal home is thorny and arduous, especially in the last days before the end. But it is all the shorter the more difficult it is to pass. The end is near and all obstacles will pile up in front of you once again, yet after overcoming them you will be able to walk freely and enter the spiritual kingdom where all hardship has come to an end. And if you seriously think about it, your difficult earthly existence must first give you the certainty that the end is near, for I have predicted to you since the beginning of this redemption period the hardship and tribulation you will experience before the end, that you will have to live through a time of adversity on earth as it has never been before, and from this you can already recognise the truth of My Word, for the suffering and hardship around you is immense and will become even greater. But I call out to My own: Be patient and wait for My help .... What is inevitable, what I have proclaimed long before, must fulfil itself for the suffering of countless people and to strengthen the faith of My own. The time of great tribulation has dawned and anyone who remembers My Word knows that the last hour will soon have come. And he will bear witness to Me and My Word, which is truth and will remain so for all eternity. And no matter how great the adversity is, it must be proof for you of the truth of My Word and strengthen your faith, it must be of comfort to you, for with this prediction I also gave you the promise that I would shorten the days for the sake of the chosen ones .... They will pass quickly, but the adversity must first weigh heavily on you so that you realise that the end is near ....You must never hope for improvement, but you must humbly accept the adversity and join Me the more it presses you, then it will be worth more to you than the owning of earthly possessions, which are without meaning and cannot follow you into eternity. ‘Come to Me, you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ....’ Keep this promise, believe and trust in Me and all adversity will be bearable for you. Trustingly place your fate in My hand and it will guide you until the end of your life .... No matter how stony the path may be, it leads upwards and at its end I wait for you .... In the end the heavenly dwellings in your Father's house await you, where no suffering will oppress you, where there is no hardship, where there is eternal peace and bliss, where your eyes will behold splendours of which no human heart can imagine. Believe in My Word, and even in the great adversity you can always recognise the confirmation of My Word, for I have announced it to you, and it has to be fulfilled as My Word as soon as the end is near. Therefore only prepare yourselves for the end, let go of all earthly worries, no longer create and work for the earth but only for the spiritual kingdom, constantly make use of My strength and grace, remain in constant prayer, that is, in constant contact with Me through thoughts and deeds of love .... and you will not need to take a single step without Me, you will have Me by your side as your constant guide, no matter how thorny the path may be, it will lead you towards the right goal .... it leads to the Father's house, it leads to Me, Who is your most loving Father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

"Create and work while it is still day ...."

B.D. 6404 from November 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The day will draw to a close and night will fall, and everything will be shrouded in deepest darkness .... For the time has come which was given to you humans for your release from the form, a period has come to an end whose duration was determined by Me Myself in wise foresight of your spiritual state and its only possibility of help. My plan of salvation is unknown to you humans, and if it is made known to you then you don't believe it, yet it exists, and in accordance with this plan of salvation everything happens in the universe and also in the spiritual kingdom. For the spiritual kingdom and its inhabitants are in closest contact with the beings on earth, and they try to exert all their influence in order to still achieve a good end with people who are not entirely distant from Me. But when the day of the end has come everything that has already stood in a certain degree of light will sink back into deepest darkness .... Then night falls, which lasts endlessly .... Then no human being will be able to work anymore, for every human being will have ceased to be except for the few who belong to Me and thus belong to My own, whom I will take away from earth with a living body because they shall animate the new earth again according to My plan of eternity. The night will irrevocably descend and everything will perish in darkness because it did not seek the light on earth. But you humans still live in the light of day, even though it will soon diminish, and thus, as long as it is still day you can still eagerly create and work, you can escape the night if you take refuge in the eternal light, if you kindle a light within yourselves which will never go out again and you need never ever fear the night .... This possibility is open to all of you, you all carry a spark within yourselves which only needs to be ignited in order to radiate light which now illuminates all your paths .... And it can only be called to you again and again: Make good use of the light of the day, work on your soul, make it receptive to light so that My light of love can shine through it and there will be no more darkness for you forever .... Strive spiritually and leave all earthly striving behind, for the darkness which is imposed on earth is getting deeper and deeper, but the light shines from above, from the spiritual kingdom .... And therefore you must direct your gaze spiritually and know that spiritual things alone are of value and will one day mean the right life, the right light for you .... Learn to judge everything earthly-material as an illusory world, and then you will also be able to detach yourselves from it .... Desire light, flee from darkness by escaping from the world with its illusionary light .... Resist being plunged into darkness by the powers of darkness, hand yourselves over to the forces of light, hand yourselves over to Me Who is the light from eternity. Every day comes to an end, but a bright morning always dawns again .... But this night will last forever, and only My own will experience the bright morning who already stand in My ray of light, because their love and will belong to Me .... All of you humans can give Me your love and your will and you would not regret it, yet you have to do it voluntarily, your heart has to seek Me voluntarily, then you, too, will enter My circle of light and a morning full of light will also be granted to you .... Therefore My serious admonition applies to you again and again: Create and work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work, and this night will last forever and is imminent for humanity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Survival of the soul

Think often about the hour of death ....

B.D. 7458 from November 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Let it be said to all of you that every day the time you have left until the end is getting shorter .... that the time of grace, in which you can work and create after your own will, will soon be over. All your work and activity should only just relate to the salvation of your souls, you should only consider your souls and put aside all worldly things, for when you take care of your soul's salvation everything else you require will be given to you, so that you would nevertheless be maintained without your own effort. But your soul's salvation is in great danger by living your earthly life as you do now .... by only paying attention to worldly things and forgetting that your lifetime will soon be over. You keep going with the wrong attitude and just consider your body, even if you want to present yourselves to the world as 'Christians' .... You do not live with Christ, Who is and wants to remain your eternal salvation, but Who can only be united with you if you live a life of love .... You still love yourselves too much, for all you think about is to improve your standard of life; you just try to please your body ....

But do you consider your soul and what it needs to become blessed? After all, you know that you will not stay on earth forever, that you can be called away even tomorrow, and that then only the state of your soul will determine the fate that is awaiting it in the kingdom of the beyond. Then all the things the body had owned and the person will have to leave behind in this world will be worthless. Then all efforts for the sake of the body and its comfort will have been futile, but the soul stands poor and needy at the gate of eternity .... If only you humans would bear the soul's unhappy state in mind, if only you would seriously think more often about your hour of death, and if only you would believe that the short time of grace you were given as a reprieve in order to change will soon be over ....

Every day can bring riches to your soul if you live fully in the right way, if you do kind deeds, if you radiate love and kindness to your fellow human beings and help where your help is required; if you make contact with your eternal Father in prayer, if you establish the right relationship with Him like a child with its father .... It need not be a sacrifice for you, you can truly lead a God-pleasing life, yet you have to think of Him more often, you should not exclusively spend your thoughts on the world and its demands, you must always realise that everything the world can offer you is transient, but that everything which comes from God will last forever .... And in order to receive something from God which you can keep as a spiritual treasure, you will have to establish a connection with Him and remain in contact through prayer and loving actions .... Not much is asked of you but without this heartfelt bond you will always remain poor, and at the time of death your soul will be very deprived and miserable ....

And yet, it cannot be given anything that it has not acquired itself .... For this reasons you humans can only ever be warned and admonished not to walk through life irresponsibly but always think about the hour of your death, when you have to give account of how you have utilised your earthly life for the benefit of your souls .... Take stock of yourselves, think things over and strive towards the maturity of your soul, and you shall always receive help if only you verify to God your good will of coming closer to Him in order to one day being allowed to stay with Him completely once your soul has become worthy of it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Death of the body beginning of real life ....

B.D. 5696 from June 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

If you successfully cover the earthly lifetime for your soul, then death will no longer frighten you but you will welcome it as a gateway to eternal life. For only then will actual life await you, a blissful activity in blissful communion with like-minded souls awaits you, and you will be able to work in light and freedom, in strength and fullest knowledge. Then death will also be overcome for you and you will be blissfully happy in the vision of God. You must have attained maturity of soul .... And you can only achieve this by fulfilling God's commandments, by living a life of love for God and your neighbour. Therefore you should only strive to help your fellow human beings in spiritual and physical adversity, you should give them love and not miss a single day when you have not accomplished at least one good deed, then you will shape yourselves more and more into love and be increasingly more filled by God's strength, Who will now also turn His love towards you more, because love will always kindle love again and you will assimilate yourselves to God's fundamental being until He can draw you to Himself, until you have united yourselves with Him and will never be able to separate from Him again, because love wraps an unbreakable bond around father and child which you will never want to loosen. The actual life only begins with the death of the body, for every cover falls off you, you are free and remain free and will now live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Life of the soul - activity ....

B.D. 3666 from January 24th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The soul's life is guaranteed as soon as it receives strength and light on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. For it needs both for activity, and activity is life. The soul's activity is a spiritual one, it involves itself in the entire activity of all spiritual things, in the process of redeeming the unfree spiritual, which also includes the creation and shaping of new creations, which is incumbent upon the spiritual being in highest abundance of strength and light. For the soul's activity is also determined by its degree of strength and light, and therefore, once it has gained knowledge, it will always strive for the highest degree of maturity in order to be able to be active in a way which completely corresponds to God's will and makes itself extremely happy. A soul's degree of maturity can only be increased through incessant activity of love .... Thus the eternal life, the imperishable life of the soul, necessitates its activity of love, which only then brings it light and strength. Life, that is, activity without love, does not exist, even though the human being on earth believes himself to be alive, even if he is devoid of all love. It is only his physical life which, however, he loses at the moment of his departure from earth, for the soul is already dead and powerless on earth and enters the spiritual kingdom in this state because it cannot completely pass away, thus it has to endure its powerless state in the consciousness of its existence .... It is dead until it decides to work with love and struggles for strength. Only then will it slowly awaken to life if it receives strength through loving prayer from people on earth or help from beings of light .... of souls which therefore live, i.e. are active in love, in order to release the souls from darkness. Without the supply of light and strength the soul is unable to do anything, but the supply of light and strength is only the result of the loving desire to be helpfully active itself. Everything that has emerged from God is imperishable, but more or less active. The state of inactivity, of complete powerlessness, is the state of death, which means an unspeakable agony for the spiritual, which was originally active in creating and shaping. And this agony cannot be ended in any other way than by supplying the soul with light and strength so that it awakens to life. Therefore it has to awaken love in itself, it has to muster the will to be lovingly active through the supply of strength, which makes God's mercy or the human being's mercy possible for it, otherwise it can never ever become a recipient of light and strength and falls into the state of complete torpor, from which it can no longer redeem itself in eternities until it is forcibly guided through creation again and a slow change of will is the result of the walk through creation. So-called dead matter is then its abode, whose life is only recognizable again when the resistance of the spiritual subsides and the deformation around it can be loosened. Then earthly life begins again, an albeit minimal activity which intensifies the more the spiritual gives up its resistance. Earthly life is only the preschool for spiritual life, for the vitality which God grants to the spiritual being in ascent development is only a means for the attainment of spiritual strength which then secures life for the soul in the spiritual kingdom. The strength of life is a means to be able to work on earth with love, so that the soul receives light and strength on earth and can enter the spiritual kingdom with it, where it can now be constantly active and thus live in bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul’s continuation of life after death ....

B.D. 7343 from April 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 78

You can be certain that you will live even if your body falls prey to death .... But the state of your life after your physical death depends on yourselves, whether your life will be a happy one which could truly be called life, or whether you will find yourselves in darkness and helplessness which are comparable to death, albeit you will remain conscious of your existence and therefore will have to suffer agonies. But it will never be the case that you will completely cease to exist, that you will no longer be self-aware and that your existence will be obliterated. And precisely because you continue to exist you ought to ensure that you create a happy situation for yourselves while you are still living on this earth. Your future fate in the kingdom of the beyond is a matter of your very own will, since you create it yourselves by your way of life on earth. If it is a life of selfless love for other people you can also be sure that a blissful fate will await you .... But if you only live to please yourselves, if you lack this love for your neighbour and therefore also for God, you can expect a painful fate indeed. Then you will be poor and wretched because you will lack everything .... light, strength and freedom, and all you will experience is indescribable torment.

The fact that you humans on earth have such little faith in life after death also determines your conduct, for you are irresponsible towards your soul because you do not believe that it will continue to live after your body has passed away. And you do not believe that the soul is, after all, your real Self. It will feel exactly the same as it did during its earthly life, it will long for happiness and light and suffer bitter regret once it has gained but a glimmer of light whereby it recognises its real task on earth and in retrospect blames itself dreadfully for not having fulfilled it .... Whereas souls who may enter the spheres of light will sing praises and give thanks and are able to occupy themselves in full strength and freedom for their own happiness.

The soul will never perish, but how it will experience its continued existence is decided by people themselves while they are still on earth. For this time was given to you in order to improve the state of your soul which, at the beginning of its embodiment, is still rather imperfect. Hence, the work of the human soul should consist of providing for itself a true, immortal 'life', so that one day it can enter in freedom and light the kingdom where it can be active in accordance with its state of maturity, which is in fact possible at various degrees but which can only be called 'life' when it is allowed to enter the kingdom of light. But it is also possible that the soul will still be as imperfect at the end of its earthly life as it was at the beginning. Indeed, it can even have grown darker, and then its state will be comparable to the state of death, for it will have misused its earthly life, it won't have taken advantage of the grace of embodiment, and yet, it will not pass away .... This is a very sad, pitiful situation and yet, it is its own fault, because only the human being's will decides the soul's fate, and this will is free. If only people believed that they will continue to exist after the death of their body .... they would live more responsibly on earth and endeavour to ascend from the deepest abyss .... But no person can be forced into faith, yet everyone will be helped in order to become a believer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Remember the soul after death .... pitiful figures in the afterlife ....

B.D. 5602 from February 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

What your soul desires, that shall be supplied to it .... But do you pay attention to your soul's desire? You fulfil the body's demands but leave the soul's desire unfulfilled. And thus it will happen that your real self will enter the beyond in utmost poverty and weakness, for you do nothing during your earthly life to nourish and strengthen the soul; it starves and begs and is an unhappy being, while the well-fed body remains behind and perishes. If you could see the wretched figures in the hereafter who have passed over in this way, you would be terrified and turn away in horror .... And yet the same fate awaits you if you have led the same earthly life as they. Earthly life will pass very quickly, and what you humans have striven for and perhaps even achieved you will have to leave behind or it will be destroyed during your lifetime, and then you will have to ruefully realize that you left a time of grace unused which could have brought you spiritual success of immeasurable value .... You make a lot of mistakes during this short time of earthly life and yet you are constantly reminded and admonished to remember your soul which lives on when you have to leave your body .... Why don't you pay attention to these indications, why don't you follow the admonitions of those who want to help you in spiritual adversity .... why do you only turn your eyes to the world and don't even look within yourselves so that the soul's adversity would become apparent to you? .... You pay rich tribute to the world, that is, to God's adversary, but you do not make the small sacrifice of providing nourishment for the soul, which consists of the word of God .... Therefore you cannot expect mercy when you enter the spiritual kingdom, you will have to accept the fate you have prepared for the soul on earth yourselves .... Hunger and thirst, darkness and torment .... For it cannot reap what it did not sow on earth. It can indeed still be saved in the beyond, yet what dreadful torments precede its salvation; how immeasurably difficult it is to persuade a soul to change its will, which was completely wrongly directed on earth. The soul cannot be given what it did not acquire .... And it has to struggle unspeakably in order to achieve an improvement of its situation.

It will achieve it if it wants to, but the will is so dreadfully weak and only great love can help it up. And how rarely does a soul find such love .... because love has grown cold on earth and is therefore followed by little love .... If you humans knew about the hardship of these souls they would take pity on you and let your love flare up, yet you lack faith in it and cannot be given to you against your will .... Yet again and again divine love calls to you: Remember your souls .... Do not let them live in want in earthly life because you are preparing an agonizing fate for yourselves in eternity .... Remember the life of the soul after death, so that you do not have to think back in painful remorse of the unused time on earth. Work and create for your soul, so that you may live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Creation and working in the hereafter

Man determines his own fate ....

B.D. 7541 from March 7th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The kingdom you desire will become your abode .... Spirit or matter will be your cover, depending on your will, but this is free. The fate that awaits your soul after the body's apostasy is one you have created for yourselves through your will, which was meant for spirit or matter. Understand that you yourselves are the originators of what awaits you after your death. For you receive what you want: a stay in hard matter or in the spiritual realm .... The fate you have chosen for yourselves during your life on earth awaits you. But they are quite different lots .... They signify bliss or torment, and only those who strive for the spiritual kingdom in earthly life will be allowed to enjoy a beautiful state, they will be blissful, whereas hard matter will again become the shell of the spiritual, which only strived for matter on earth and which is in a state of hardship and torment .... yet through its own fault. You humans live on earth for the purpose of spiritualizing your ego .... of your soul, which is no longer far from its completion. But you must accomplish this spiritualization yourselves of your own free will, and therefore you cannot be hindered if you turn more towards matter again and your ego slowly hardens again .... when your soul sinks back into the depth from which it had already ascended so far that it should only still prove itself as a human being .... It certainly has the opportunity to completely spiritualize itself in the short time of earthly life, for it is granted assistance in every way. But it is also exposed to temptations by the world, it is constantly enticed by matter and seeks to take possession of it; thus it can, in free will, place the material world before the spiritual world, and then it irrevocably takes the path of return to the abyss, then its perfection is in question unless it still comes to its senses before the death of its body and strives towards the spiritual kingdom with a strong will .... which is also possible for it because this will is respected and supported at all times. This is why the material world is a great danger for the human being whose will is weakened ..... For the will determines the soul's spiritual state and this can very easily develop regressively .... And then the soul's matter will stay when the body falls prey to death. But if the human being seeks to attain the spiritual kingdom, if his thoughts move more in this than in the earthly kingdom, if he seeks the bond with God, then he need not fear falling prey to matter and his fate in the beyond will be accordingly .... He is in the spiritual kingdom which he aspired to on earth, and only the soul's degree of maturity determines the degree of light and bliss which that spiritual kingdom offers him .... but it is the spiritual kingdom .... the soul has been able to completely detach itself from the material form, it has reached its original state again, since it was able to create and work in full freedom in light and strength .... It has reached its aim on earth and now no longer needs to pass through the material world, but this is the fate of the souls who only desired matter on earth. And it is the last time of grace, it is the time before the end, when unusual help will still be given to all people so that they can still accomplish their complete spiritualization on earth .... Unusual events provide unusual help where people themselves have become too irresponsible and indifferent .... God Himself comes to the aid of all souls because He loves them and wants to spare them the dreadful fate of a new banishment .... But all people have free will, and this determines the soul's fate in eternity, in the time after the death of the body, which can be extremely glorious but also equally agonizing, depending on this will and the way of life the person leads on earth. Anyone who strives towards the spiritual kingdom will also enter it; anyone who desires matter will have to take it as a cover again, for the kingdom of the beyond is closed to these souls as soon as the last day on this earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul will reap what it has sown ....

B.D. 7656 from July 26th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

You should not entertain deceptive ideas that you can gather treasures for your earthly life because you will lose them faster than you had acquired them. I caution you not to strive after earthly possessions and get attached to them, and time and again I will show you the transient nature of worldly possessions. You spend much time and effort when it comes to collecting worldly treasures and rarely consider that you cannot keep them, that you have to let go of them when you leave this earth, but that they can also be taken from you by other means if this is My will. You only appreciate what belongs to the world and yet is temporary; but you ignore the eternal .... you only take care of your body and ignore your soul .... And thus you use your energy of life wrongly, you only use it for your physical well-being but inconsiderately prepare a wretched fate in eternity for your soul. Because during your earthly life you do not give to the soul that which serves its perfection alone, you let it starve, whereas you excessively provide for your body without ever gaining from it. Because even your earthly life can end from one day to the next, and then you will enter the kingdom in the beyond poor and empty-handed and will have to suffer much pain.

For once you should think about the fact that you yourselves have no control over your life, that your life on earth could be short and that death could approach you any day without your being able to prevent it. And you should think about the 'thereafter' .... but you do not believe that you are not obliterated at the moment of death, you do not believe in the soul's continuation of life and that this life will then be in accordance with your life on earth and your concern for your soul's salvation. And on account of this unbelief you live thoughtlessly and do not question the meaning and purpose of your earthly life. You are content when you get what you like on earth, when you provide the body with a sense of well-being and collect many earthly possessions for the future .... And you do not actually know whether you will still have a future. However, you all know that you will have to die one day .... And this knowledge should make you want to evaluate your earthly life consciously. But you lack faith, faith in a God and Creator, Who will hold you accountable for your conduct on earth one day. And because you do not believe, you are indifferent.

But you can all be certain that the hour of your accountability will come and that your regret will be bitter when you find yourselves in great spiritual poverty in the kingdom of the beyond and eventually realise what you had neglected on earth due to your own fault. Because it is by grace that you were allowed to become embodied on earth, and not to have used this grace will be bitterly regretted by the soul one day since it will never be able to make up for its neglect, although in the kingdom of the beyond it will also receive help to ascend from the abyss, but the circumstances are far more difficult than they are or were on earth. You should not live so thoughtlessly because the hour will come for every human being when he has to leave the earthly body and then the soul will enter the spiritual kingdom .... Although this hour can bring much pleasure and joy it can also bring great darkness and pain .... but always in accordance with the human being's own will which he had demonstrated by his conduct during his earthly life .... He will reap what he has sown, he will enter the kingdom of light and bliss, or he will be received by darkness which will not release him again until the soul has changed its attitude and then, with loving support, it will walk the path of ascent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual death and renewed banishment ....

B.D. 7644 from July 9th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Spiritual death is the worst fate that can happen to the soul, for it will be unable to release itself from it once it has departed from earth. It exists, it is also conscious of itself and yet is entirely without light and strength, and this is a state of inconceivable agony. It inevitably leads to a renewed banishment into matter again unless people intercede so effectively on its behalf that it provides the soul with strength, so that it can change itself if it has the will to do so, that is, if it doesn't directly resist it. As long as a soul is apathetic in this state, it can receive help from the enlightened spiritual world or through loving intercession .... But it can also be so hardened that it rebels with burning rage against the power which .... so it believes .... keeps it imprisoned. Then it will steadily descend further and harden into solid substance, which subsequently makes its ascent in the kingdom of the beyond impossible. Then it will have to travel the infinitely long path of higher development through the whole of creation again, for one day even this soul shall wake up to the life which lasts forever .... Countless people on this earth are in this danger of succumbing to spiritual death, for during the end time they do nothing in order to acquire this life. They live without love and therefore without God as well, they already harden their souls to matter on earth, for they strive towards it and fail to consider the spiritual life they are supposed to create for the soul while they live on earth. They bow to the one who is master of the earthly world and also strive for his goods .... And these cannot bestow life upon the soul but they certainly assure its spiritual death.

And if it enters the beyond in this lifeless state it will be in utmost danger, for heartless people rarely leave friends behind on earth who will send loving thoughts to them in the spiritual kingdom. And only these can save the soul, for every loving thought, every prayer full of love has an effect of strength on such souls, they are so effective that the soul changes and has the will to ascend. Then it will have escaped eternal death, it will no longer descend into the state which results in its renewed banishment. All you humans have no idea about the strength of love or you would make an effort to live a life of love .... And then you will attain life, for love itself is life, and it awakens everything that is dead back to life again.

If, however, you don't use this strength, if you go along without love, your soul's spiritual substance has no option but to solidify and thereby gets into a dreadful state, for then death will not lead to the souls transience, instead it will be a state of vegetating in awareness of its existence and of agonising helplessness and darkness. As long as you still live on earth you are incapable of imagining this state, yet you should do everything in your power in order to avoid it, for everything is possible for you on earth, you repeatedly have the opportunity to accomplish deeds of love on earth, and then the danger of death will be over, then you will have to awaken to life while you are still on earth and thus will also be able to enter eternal life, then you will have conquered death. And you are all able to live a life of love, for the divine spark of love is in all of you, which need only be kindled in order to never be extinguished again, because love always gives you new strength and you will inwardly be motivated to be active once you have kindled this spark of love in you. However, you cannot be forced to do so, but the dreadfulness of spiritual death can only ever be pointed out to you so that you will try to avoid this horror of your own accord .... For as long as you live on earth you have the strength to be lovingly active; but once you have entered the kingdom of the beyond you will be incapable of doing anything by yourselves, then you will be dependent on help and can consider yourselves fortunate if it is provided for you by people whose thoughts follow you with love .... Only love redeems, only love is strength .... and everyone should acquire love for himself through loving activity as long as he lives on earth, so that he will not succumb to spiritual death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond ....

B.D. 5554 from December 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

My spirit is revealing spiritual knowledge to you which will, one day, make you indescribably happy if you work with it in the spiritual kingdom for the benefit of those who are still unaware .... Until people have reached the state of enlightenment pure truth is rarely to be found amongst them on earth and therefore not in the kingdom of the beyond either. For light stands for wisdom, the knowledge of pure truth, and every erroneous thought is a shadow obscuring the light, even if a soul is already translucent. But until the last wrong thought has been banished the light will still be cloudy at times, and the soul first has to make itself completely accessible to the truth, it must have acquired the correct information before it will be able to work with it as a bearer of light in the spiritual kingdom.

Being able to enter the beyond with spiritual knowledge is therefore an immense grace, since it is the equivalent to wearing a bright gown of light which shines everywhere and distributes light in turn. Then it can instantly carry out its real function, it can educate the ignorant and be of immense help where there is still darkness or twilight. For it will also be confronted by doubters and liars in the spiritual realm, nevertheless it will be able to enlighten them with its knowledge. Since this knowledge is the result of the revelations through My spirit it will have a power of conviction which a being can rarely resist unless it is a representative of the prince of darkness and flees from the truth. For such beings will also cross the path of someone who knows in order to extinguish a light in the belief that they are able to do so. And beings like that can only receive clarification from a bearer of light who has received his knowledge from Me ....

For this very reason My revelations, My Word, contain tremendous strength which can even pull down strong walls, for I will address these souls Myself if you lend Me your mouth, if you, due to My will, bring the Gospel to the souls in darkness in the same way as you have received it from Me. For it is the pure truth, and this will even convince a soul hitherto steeped in wrong thought since it feels an inner happiness, it more or less perceives the truth like a good deed, its understanding of it begins to develop, it can no longer doubt what it effectively receives from Me .... The strength of My Word will have a noticeable effect, the soul will suddenly become illuminated, and what it had so far failed to understand will suddenly become clear and will be joyfully accepted. Just as misery and confusion caused by misguided teachings are great, so gladdening and intelligible is the truth .... And truth will always be found where My spirit can be effective, what I reveal to people through My spirit will always be truth. Therefore you should remain aware of the abundance of blessings you receive from Me and work with this gift of grace, pass on My Word, carry light into the darkness, illuminate everyone, give them the truth which you have received from Me Myself, and work for the benefit of those who are still living in spiritual darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Effective medicine of the soul: God’s word ....

B.D. 5609 from February 22nd 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The recovery of a sick soul can only be achieved by a healing medicine, a medicine which contains everything the soul lacks, which has brought it into a state that expresses itself in weakness and suffering. The soul will only feel these sufferings and weaknesses upon its entry into the kingdom of the beyond, for previously the human being only pays attention to the body and all the soul's shortcomings recede in order to become even more prominent once it has discarded the body and only that remains which is the result of the earthly change .... the deficiently shaped soul, which now enters the kingdom of the beyond and experiences its poverty with extreme agony. It could have recovered on earth, i.e. it could have been provided with everything it lacked if the right medicine had already been given to it on earth, which would have shaped it well and could have put it into a strong state when the body passed away .... Yet it can still recover in the beyond through precisely this medicine, it can improve its weak, wretched state, albeit with greater effort than on earth, it can slowly make up for what it neglected to do on earth, yet never without the right remedy which will bring it strength and recovery. And this remedy is My word, which truly is the only medicine with a sure healing effect, which is indispensable for the soul, which gives it the right life, a life where it can create in light and strength and be blissfully happy .... The soul cannot live without My word, it can indeed vegetate, dull and wretched and completely powerless, because it cannot pass away, but it is not a life which requires activity and strength and light. With My word it accepts everything in order to be able to be active, for it accepts strength from Me directly and this strength impels it into activity, just as good medicine stimulates and invigorates the sick person so that he wants to take part in the work which appears to him as happiness. My word is simply the law of eternal order, and anyone who moves in My order from eternity will live, because a life is equal to activity according to My will. Anyone who violates My order either works wrongly or is prevented from working, he has become completely incapable of carrying out work .... My word is the divine law proclaimed to you which you must follow in order to be able to work in eternity. You must know about My law and therefore also listen to My word and live accordingly, then your soul will already have life within itself and can develop in the spiritual kingdom for its own and many souls' blessing. But if it arrives terminally ill in the beyond it lacks all strength for activity and is helpless and dependent on external help if it is not to sink into deepest darkness from which it can no longer free itself. There is no other means than this word of Mine, and even if intercession is made for these souls which are in distress .... it only helps to stimulate its will to open up when the means of salvation is handed to it .... For the soul must want it itself; no person on earth and no being in the beyond can take this decision of will away from it, it must inevitably turn to those itself who want to bring it the word which can heal and strengthen it. And you humans should pray for this will to become soft and compliant, and the soul will already feel this prayer as strength and accept the help offered to it. My gospel must be conveyed to all souls which want to attain eternal life .... For the acceptance of it is the entry into My eternal order and thus eternal life, for anyone who lives within My order will also be able to work according to My will, he will be able to work in strength and light and will no longer be dead in spirit but will live eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessed lot and activity in the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 5624 from March 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

A truly blissful fate awaits you if you enter the kingdom of the beyond richly blessed with spiritual possessions. Then you will immediately be able to tackle tasks which make you happy yourselves, you will feel an abundance of strength and want to pass it on because you also know that there are beings which are completely powerless and whom you can help. And your will will turn towards these unfortunate ones, and now your actual activity begins to redeem bound unhappy souls by imparting to them the spiritual good you possess yourselves, by working with the treasures you have acquired on earth through a life of love .... You possess strength in abundance .... and you see the torment of the powerless souls, for your eyes are opened to the fate of those who dwell in darkness .... You can see them in their unhappy state, you can join them but without being recognized by them as belonging to another sphere .... Your will to help becomes overpowering in you, with perseverance and love you try to encourage these souls to work themselves and to acquire the strength for it through love .... The will of such a soul to help the suffering souls will already provide them with strength, and your constant effort will be to stimulate this will, because you cannot help them otherwise if their will opposes it. Yet new strength will always flow to you and therefore you will not tire in your redeeming activity. You all have souls close to you whom you can help, and that makes you happy that you can hand out and thereby receive ever new strength, that ever brighter light surrounds you and that you may carry the light wherever your love urges you to help. The actual activity cannot be explained to you humans, but no soul is idle which stands in the light and thus has spiritual wealth to show. The union with beings of the same degree of light increases their power to help, and together they now pursue their work of redemption to also carry out difficult rescues, for which the strength of the individual soul is not yet sufficient. What it has acquired on earth in spiritual goods increases more and more in the spiritual kingdom, for it distributes and receives ever more of it the more it gives .... A comprehensive knowledge fills it, and knowledge is light .... Therefore it does not fear darkness either, because it can always radiate light if it wants to .... But its abundance of light remains hidden from the souls of darkness until they long for light themselves. But the soul of light sees everything, for it the darkness is no danger and no terror, only a merciful love fills it when it sees the powerless souls which cannot free themselves from their unhappy situation. And where there is love, there is also salvation .... For this reason the light is constantly brought into the darkness and the soul is worked on with love and patience until they seek to change, until they themselves want to receive light too .... Then the rescue work will have succeeded, for now the soul can be given what it lacks, the soul of light can give itself away, and it will be all the happier the more willingly its help is accepted. For it leads the souls to God which have been lost to Him for so long as they languish in darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeeming work in the beyond ....

B.D. 6662 from October 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

And you will be able to participate in the work of salvation, for this will be your activity in the kingdom of the beyond when you are sufficiently mature enough to be assigned an activity. You will bring light into the darkness, because you have experienced yourselves how agonising it is to live in darkness and how much happiness the light has given you. No redeemed soul will be inactive, and therefore every soul will be integrated into the host of those who carry out redemption work .... For they all are motivated by their love to help those who are wretched in returning to God, for Whom they are now tirelessly active and work because they share His will and are full of love for Him. And thus the deliverance of all souls is guaranteed, even if infinitely long times will still pass by until all spirits have found their way back to God, from Whom they once separated of their own free will. But this free decision will also determine how long the salvation process will take for each individual soul .... The soul is also able to offer resistance and delay its return to God for an endless time, but already redeemed souls will always take care of them, therefore no human being on earth and no soul in the kingdom of the beyond will be completely without help, which also explains the fact that time and again they will be offered the opportunity to enter the path of return to God, because it will be shown to them.

If, however, a human being adamantly rejects every incentive to enter the spiritual path during his earthly life, then small openings of light will repeatedly be provided to the souls in the beyond which will make the path visible to them, because the soul of light takes pity on the souls which wander around in profound darkness .... And thus begins the redeemed beings' activity of helping these poor souls achieve salvation too. Hence no soul is without a sphere of activity, just as no dark soul is without guidance, only the free will of the latter determines the success. But once the work of redemption has been successfully achieved on just one soul, then another redeeming power will have been gained again to help the dark world, which in turn can and will accomplish inconceivable work, since it is now full of love and, due to its gratitude, willing to render the greatest possible help. And every soul has its adherents with whom it will work particularly diligently, even if it will meet with resistance for a long time .... But its love will not diminish, and love will always liberate, because no being will be able to resist love forever.

Indeed, it would be possible for complete salvation to take place on earth already, because Jesus Christ has suffered and died on the cross so that people are able to receive strength, that they are able to partake in the graces of the act of Salvation if they want to .... But Jesus Christ has not compelled people's will either, and it is up to the will to either make use of the act of Salvation or to ignore it .... But whatever was neglected on earth can be continued in the beyond, because redemption work is carried out there as well, and even then an appeal for His grace and mercy can still be sent to Jesus Christ .... And every soul having found Him itself, having been redeemed by Him from sin and death, will also draw attention to Him, it will inform every unredeemed soul of His love, it will direct their thoughts to the great act of compassion by the human being Jesus and thus try to lead every as yet unredeemed soul to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... And its steadily growing love will also be successful, for love will achieve everything, and love can't help but participate in the act of Salvation, which began with Jesus' crucifixion and will not end until all still unredeemed souls are delivered from every constraint and thus have also attained life and beatitude, until the complete return to God has been accomplished, until all spirits that have emerged from God have returned home into their Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Final destiny create and revive .... union with God ....

B.D. 1394 from April 27th 1940, taken from Book No. 23

This is your final destiny, to revitalize everything that exists in creation, to constantly create and shape something new in accordance with God's will. And this will mean bliss for you, you will revel in supreme delights and radiant light will be your fate. For only now will you be able to grasp the eternal deity in its greatness, only now will you be as it is the father's will .... Become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect .... What now presents itself to you is supreme bliss, for the father withholds nothing from His true children. You will therefore be in a state that includes everything in itself .... purest love and therefore light and strength to the highest degree, i.e. knowledge and power to such an extent that nothing can be unrealizable or unfinished for you. And now consider the divine creative will and that you likewise carry this will within you and can therefore create and shape it entirely at your own discretion .... Thus the being is in a God-like state, it has completely united with God, the unification has taken place, it is no longer an individual being but completely merged with God, yet the consciousness, the thinking of an individual being remains with it, and this increases its bliss. The unification of infinitely many beings in a state of maturity is an increase of spiritual strength, and the individual being is thereby able to achieve incredible things .... It can therefore utilize the power from God at any time without limitation and will always work in accordance with God's will, but always according to its own thinking and discretion. The union with God .... the union with spiritual power is no restriction of the own freedom of will, only with a perfect being the will is not different than the divine will is. For everything has its origin in love .... every work of creation arose in purest love, for the being can only be creatively active when it has completely moulded itself into love. Thus all creations emerged from love, and everything that has its origin in love must carry divine will within itself because God is love Himself. So everything that is united in God must also be in the same will, because divine love is the basic element of everything that is created. The creation of new beings and the creations beneficial to these beings must therefore trigger unimaginable delights, for love gives birth to everything and love is the epitome of bliss. And divine wisdom is required in order to mould all creations according to plan .... But light and knowledge are likewise inherent to perfect beings, for otherwise the being could not be perfect. The union with God has therefore brought perfection to the being and it now certainly works on its own authority, i.e. according to its thoughts and feelings, but receives light and strength, i.e. wisdom and power, continuously from the divine creator .... it therefore carries out God's will for its own happiness because this is its actual purpose ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Creating and shaping in the kingdom of light .... no man's eye ....

B.D. 4291 from May 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will be seized by an indescribable longing for My presence once your soul has entered the kingdom of light, and the fulfilment of this longing is bliss. You will feel love for Me to an ever increasing degree and therefore also sincerely long for unity with Me, and so that you will find fulfilment I will draw close to you and you will feel My closeness as a blissful feeling of strength, as an increased impetus for activity, as an inner urge to make yourselves happy by distributing what you possess. In order for you to be able to distribute, I constantly provide you with spiritual wealth, I impart profound knowledge to you and therefore place you in an everlasting state of happiness which offers you variety in every way. You will be allowed to see and hear what you will never be granted to see or hear on earth. You will be blessed .... What love can offer you, that you will receive, for My love for you is boundless and constantly intent on turning happiness towards you. Yet you will only ever be spiritually considered, for earthly goods no longer appeal to you in the state of perfection. The desire for earthly goods is a sign of a lack of maturity of soul which can never earn you a state of light. But you will hunger and thirst and always have the desire to be satisfied, and your desire will always be satisfied by My love .... Shape yourselves on earth such that you only desire spiritual goods, try to overcome all matter, only attain spiritual gifts, and you will already be able to enjoy the state of bliss on earth, for as soon as earthly things are overcome I will never ever leave you, then My presence will be assured to you and with it the supply of strength which you will feel as bliss, which will impel you into constant activity for Me and My kingdom. Giving and wanting to please is right love, giving and wanting to please characterizes the degree of neighbourly love, and thus only the urge for pleasing activity can be called love, although the human being's desire is also for things which are only purely material; yet this love is a perverse love which does not lead to Me but distances itself from Me. I want to draw your attention to the fact that only love which has Me as its aim, which therefore expresses itself through unselfish neighbourly love, is strength-inspiring. Love for the world will never put you into a state of bliss which approximately equals that of the beings of light. And never will the desire and fulfilment be as blissful as in the spiritual kingdom, where I alone am the object of your love and longing ....

(2.5.1948) Do you now understand why I constantly court your love? Why do I want to win you for eternity? I don't want to improve your lot on earth but I want you to be happy for all of eternity. You shall work together with My angels as beings of light and develop an activity which gives rise to wonderful things, which brings about creations of wondrous design. And thus you shall be allowed to use My might and strength without restriction, but this first requires unity with Me. I want you to become blessed through the use of My strength. I want to give unlimitedly, and you shall be so filled with My strength that you can create and shape like Me according to your will, which is then also My will. The integration of your will into My will is the first condition to find unity with Me, yet you will always think, want and act in free will if you have subordinated it to Me; you will never be active in a feeling of compulsion because this would impair your beatitude and diminish your perfection. In the kingdom of light My will fulfils all beings which nevertheless are active according to their own will, and all beings only have one aim .... to dwell close to Me. Yet it is impossible and incomprehensible for the human being to specialize life in eternity, to take cognizance of the activity of the individual beings, because this eludes all conception of human thought. The spiritual kingdom is a different world than the earthly one, and therefore the latter is also not to be mentioned comparatively. Only a certain degree of maturity of the soul makes the human being able to see and to receive and reproduce spiritual impressions. But if the soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of light it will understand My infinite love and marvel at all the glories of which the human being on earth cannot imagine. Then My word will come true: No human eye has ever seen and no human ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The works of the flesh will be revealed .... Beyond ....

B.D. 5670 from May 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The actions you accomplish on earth have an effect in the spiritual realm .... These are therefore works carried out by the flesh, which can be beneficial or evil, depending on which impulse caused them. For the human being can listen to the voice of his spirit but also to the voice of the world, which tries to influence the body and the body's desire more often than not contradicts the urging of the spirit. The spirit, however, urges loving actions, and if the human being, who lives on earth in the flesh, acts accordingly he will accomplish works of love and subsequently also receive his reward according to these works, whereas the body's desire is always based on selfish love and the works of self-interest will likewise be remunerated in the beyond, albeit not in a way that denotes happiness. Yet people who merely selfishly create and work in order to improve their body's sense of well-being have already received their reward .... they have created their earthly fate of pleasures and enjoyments and are not entitled to be rewarded in the kingdom of the beyond because they are lacking love, which alone is valued by God .... And thus a person can live on earth in affluence and happiness, if he does not use his wealth for kind-hearted activity then no good works will follow him and he will enter the kingdom of the beyond in a poor and wretched state, then the works of the flesh will be evident and he will be judged according to these works .... For he did not lack the strength on earth to be active according to God's will. But if he arrives in a deprived state on the other side he will also lack the strength to catch up on what he neglected to do on earth, then he will be dependent upon help to receive what he is in need of. Nevertheless, even this help presupposes his will as it did on earth, and a soul's will in the beyond is rarely different from what it was on earth. And on earth it was only his will which prevented him from carrying out kind-hearted activities, because his selfish love was too strong and he did not rise above himself. As you work on earth in the flesh, that is how your reward will be in the spiritual realm .... And what you neglected to do on earth, even though you were able to do it, will likewise be taken into account as a shortcoming, for which you will have to justify yourselves one day. Therefore create and work for eternity, don't value earthly life too highly, consider the soul's fate after the body's death and create for that life, make sure that only works of love will be revealed on the last day, on the day you depart from this earth when you will be judged according to your works .... for you can only be rewarded for works of love, because these works will follow you into eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Work while it is still day .... "

B.D. 8413 from February 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

It is still daytime when you are in the grace to receive light, for much light flows to you from Me, you who open your eyes and desire light .... But the day draws to a close and is followed by a night of endless duration for those who did not use the light of the day to work on their souls, who did not seek and find the right path in the light, which leads up to the eternal light, where there is no more night .... You are standing in a late hour and are therefore admonished with a loud voice to make good use of the last rays, the last glimmer of light before nightfall, for you can also make up much in a short time if you are only serious about escaping the eternal night. Don't follow the one who wants to lead you back into deepest darkness again but turn your eyes upwards, to Me, from Whom the light emanates which will make you immeasurably happy, you who want to escape the darkness. But time draws ever closer, the world clock does not stop, and night falls for people who walk along indifferently and do not think of their souls. And what this night means for those you cannot understand, otherwise you would truly do everything to escape it .... The night means for the souls a relapse to the deepest depth, it means renewed dissolution and renewed banishment in solid matter, it means a renewed walk through the creation of the new earth, in torment of the bondage which they had already once lived through and overcome .... But you are warned and admonished again and again, and everything is tried to portray the night to you as black as possible .... However, you do not believe and it cannot be proven to you. But the words are well known to you: 'Work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work'. "But you only understand bodily death by this, you do not know that another night is meant, for bodily death need not mean renewed darkness for your soul; after bodily death the soul can also enter into the brightest light, where there is no more night for ever .... So the death of the body need not be feared, for it can also induce immature souls to seek the light in the kingdom of the beyond ..... But the night, which is meant by these words, is to be feared, for it lasts for eternal times and means endless torment for the souls until they slowly reach the height again in order to once more lead an existence as a human being on earth and to be faced with the same decision as the human soul is now facing .... Please listen to My warnings and try to get an idea of this dreadful imprisonment which you can still escape if you are of good will and turn to Me, Whom you are unable to deny upon serious reflection .... Don't let yourselves be completely taken captive by My adversary but believe that there is a saviour Whom you can call upon for help when you are too weak yourselves .... Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world, Who defeated the adversary and also paid the purchase price for your soul if you yourselves only want to be set free from My adversary .... And hand yourselves over to Him, in Whom I Myself became a human being in order to redeem you from his power, so that you can become blessed again .... Don't let the night fall upon you which will deprive you of your self-awareness again, for you have already come considerably closer to Me when you start your earthly path as a human being. Don't let it be in vain, and don't let him triumph who only wants to ruin you but not prepare beatitudes. Just believe that night will irrevocably fall, for the time has been fulfilled which was granted to the spiritual being for its redemption from the form, and this time will also be kept, as it is intended in My plan of salvation from eternity .... Believe it, that you will feel exceedingly well when you have made use of the light of day and no longer need to fear the night, even when your temporal life has ended .... You will rise to eternal life and never lose this life again, which means light and strength and freedom in bliss ..... Therefore work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Activity of light beings

Light beings .... direct call of God ....

B.D. 3442 from February 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

All beings of light are the servant spirits of God .... they are the executors of divine will, they are the messengers who convey strength and light to people on earth as well as to the still immature souls in the spiritual kingdom. They stand in love and therefore take hold of everything in need of help as soon as this is God's will. For their actions are also subject to divine law, which underlies the maturing of the still immature spiritual. The love of the beings of light is so great that they would truly leave nothing in need if God did not set a limit for them. And this barrier determines the will of the human being on earth as well as of the soul in the beyond itself. Every thought turned towards God and every appeal to Him or the beings of light for help breaks down this barrier, for now they are allowed to be active according to their will, which is also God's will. They constantly receive strength from God, thus they are powerful and can therefore provide all kinds of help to the asking and calling beings, they can protect the human being on earth, they can instruct him and guide him onto the right path, they can alleviate hardship, but they can also guide the human being into difficult situations in life if he needs them for the sake of his soul. Every thought turned towards God gives them this opportunity, for now they are also handed over by God to the care of those beings of light who are only ever the executors of divine will, whom God lets become active for their own happiness. For the spiritual being full of light has already found unity with Him and works and creates out of His strength in His will. Therefore it is always enough to pray to God for help in adversity, so that His messengers will also be active and look after and protect the earthly child. And likewise, every good thought sent into the spiritual kingdom establishes contact with those beings which use every opportunity to carry out their actual mission, to convey illuminating thoughts to people, to teach them to pray correctly, to increase their desire for God, to stimulate them into loving activity and thus to constantly take care of people in a redeeming sense who are turned towards them through prayer and good thoughts .... The human being is always surrounded by these beings of light, yet they remain completely ineffective if he does not establish a connection with them, if he does not believe in their existence and their strength, thus if he does not consciously hand himself over to them with the request for their care and support. For according to divine law they are prevented from coming to the human being's aid without being called, since this help would not result in spiritual success but would deprive him of the opportunity to approach God for help from within, thus to establish the connection with Him which is the prerequisite for receiving strength to mature spiritually. Establishing the connection with God is so extremely important that every opportunity to do so should be used, and therefore the path to Him should be taken directly, for He Himself gave people prayer as a bridge to Him which they can always and everywhere use .... Prayer is God's grace through which He makes Himself accessible to every human being, and this grace should be used, for it results in an inestimable influx of strength which is conveyed to people again through His messengers according to His will. People can draw from this source of grace, for they will never unsuccessfully call upon Him, even if they don't immediately experience earthly success. Yet the soul will never go empty-handed, because every call from God gives innumerable beings of light permission to be active in loving care, and the human being thereby matures spiritually. For God and the spiritual beings of light are one .... what God wants is carried out by His angels, and the human being can constantly know that he is protected and cared for if he sincerely calls upon God for help and sends his thoughts into the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Assistance of the light beings for the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5811 from November 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All powers of heaven are subject to you if you need them to work for Me and My kingdom. For they will serve you because you want to serve Me, and they only carry out what they would do themselves if they were active on earth. Therefore, in every earthly adversity which hinders you from carrying out spiritual activity you can call upon them to help you or avert such adversity, and they will be willing and work in accordance with My will, for their work, too, only applies to the lost, their work, too, is the winning of souls for Me and My kingdom. Therefore, keep to those powers which only ever carry My will within themselves. Therefore, only ever entrust yourselves to the good, enlightened spiritual beings in contact with Me if you want to be of service to Me, and no opposing forces will be able to oppress you, for your will, which is directed towards Me, will always earn you the support of those beings which are now active in My will. All the powers of heaven are subject to you .... It is an immense joy in the kingdom of light about an earthly child which consciously places itself at My disposal to work for My kingdom, for now a connection has been created from the spiritual to the earthly world which immensely facilitates the work of redemption on the erring souls, thus, taking into account free will, makes it possible to influence people on earth from the kingdom of light .... And such a connection is protected and encouraged in every way, so that the human being who has offered himself for such work need never fear not being able to carry it out, for he need only request strength and help and it will always be granted to him .... For faithful servants I need very many, thus I will not let any of them be weakened but give him strength in abundance because he uses it for Me and My kingdom .... What is troubling you entrust to Me and believe that My beings of light also know about it and want to help when you call upon them .... Your work shall not suffer any delay in view of the urgency, in view of the approaching end, and therefore all forces shall work together if it is necessary to accomplish a work of salvation which will only be recognized in all its greatness and significance at the end of the earth where the spirits will be separated .... Nothing will be prevented or omitted on the part of the world of light which can still happen for the salvation of erring souls, and no human being will remain without its assistance, which itself pursues the same aim: To do redemption work. All are connected with each other, whether they take part in this work on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. And thus the beings of light are also of one spirit and one mind with Me .... to constantly help those on earth who want to be of service to Me. Therefore approach Me with every request and know that I will never leave you without help, and if you have entrusted yourselves to Me then also give My messengers and co-workers in the spiritual kingdom the right to assist you by handing yourselves over to them and their guidance, by calling upon them for support in spiritual as well as physical adversity. For it is their bliss to be allowed to give love, which they receive from Me in abundance .... It is their bliss to be allowed to work tirelessly for Me and to look after all people on earth who are loved by Me because they want to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual help on the way back .... free will ....

B.D. 8891 from December 6th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

Countless worlds have already arisen to receive the endless crowd of fallen original spirits, which as unredeemed need just as endless many creations to be able to cover their course of development in them. But all these worlds have also been arranged by spirits of light that those entities could shelter in their creations because in it lies the happiness of the light beings to constantly put out creations for the fallen spiritual, which each fulfils its purpose to bring the spiritual bound in it to maturity. And so the spiritual world is in permanent connection with the fallen spiritual, only that those beings feel an incomparable happiness thereby, while the fallen spiritual goes and must go an agonizing way to also once reach the aim to likewise participate creatively in what is still wretched. The world of light therefore uses the power, by which it is constantly flooded, to create always new creations, because still no end is foreseeable, there are still so many unbound substances, which wait to be caught by the love radiation of those beings .... which still buzz around unbound in the universe, which first have to be condensed to matter, to now be able to start the way of development. Because matter is spiritual power, which has condensed itself to form. Therefore the spiritual must let itself be captured and therefore give up the first resistance, which consisted of repelling all love power. The light beings surround this spiritual substance with their love power, without forcing it to give up its resistance, but love exerts a beneficent effect on that still resisting spiritual, so that it lets itself be captured, therefore the first resistance is broken. And then the spiritual goes through all creations in the mandatory state, what is certainly extremely agonizing, but not to be avoided, because this course once leads to the last perfection. And the spiritual being full of light will always help everyone who has sunk into the abyss to ascend from the abyss, even if this path requires endless times before he reaches the final aim .... the embodiment as man .... as a human being. But then the once fallen original spirit is again complete in all its particles, it lacks not the slightest spiritual substance, it is what it was before its fall to the deep .... however one thing is not yet present in him: He is still completely devoid of all love, without which there is no upward development. That is why God accomplished the greatest work of love when He created man and added to him a spark of His spirit of God, which now enables man to change again to his original being, to become again as it was in the beginning. That now also again the light beings do not slacken in their efforts to lead man to the highest possible maturity, that goes without saying, because that is exactly their happiness, to grant help to men in the last stage, to also help them to happiness, although free will can also prevent it and man again prolongs the time of distance from God endlessly .... But the love of those beings is so great that it is bound by law, that it can only then have an effect when free will of man allows it. But would you men know about your course of development or believe it when you are informed of it, then you would use all power to once be able to leave the cover as man, to again be able to be accepted into the kingdom of light and to become partakers of all glory. But proof cannot be given to you, but you will also not be able to say to have remained ignorant. And so it is up to your free will again, as it was once when you fell into the abyss. You also used your will wrongly there and had to atone for it through eternities, but you can also now expect no better fate when you again fail in your will. But you will experience help at any time, only you must be of good will yourselves that you also want to let yourselves be helped ...._>Amen

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Aim of the work and activity: childship to god

Childhood in God ....

B.D. 2419 from July 22nd 1942, taken from Book No. 32

The probationary period on earth is of utmost importance for the human being or his soul insofar as that it finally leaves earth at the end of it, irrespective of how far the soul has developed upwards, but the soul's degree of maturity is now decisive for its new environment and activity in the beyond. The work on earth is finally over, even if it was unsuccessful for the soul. In a way, a time of grace has ended, whether it was utilized correctly or incorrectly. But both have serious consequences in the afterlife. The time on earth is only short and yet decisive for eternity, for although the soul can still continue to develop in the beyond, it can no longer achieve the development that a properly utilized earthly life could bring it .... It cannot attain childship to God, for this requires a way of life lived on earth which completely corresponds to God's will. It requires a degree of maturity at the time of the human being's death which already allows him to enter spheres of light, the human being must already shape himself into a being of light on earth, which is also entirely within his power if he musters the will to do so. Thus he must fully utilize the grace of embodiment as a human being, he must consciously strive towards God and already seek union with Him on earth through prayer and loving activity .... .... It is nothing impossible what God demands of people, for the allocation of His grace, the granting of His help, also corresponds to His demand. Only the will of man is required .... and this usually fails. Consequently, the beings in the beyond cannot be granted the highest because they did not strive for it on earth .... Becoming a child of God is the most blissful state, which makes the being in the beyond infinitely happy, because it earns the being the inheritance of the father. It can create and mould the being with God through His power .... If the soul has lived a life of love on earth, then the separation from God has finally been overcome; it is close to God, it has found its way back to its origin, it has become one with Him. And earthly life was given to the soul for this purpose .... However, God does not abandon the spiritual substance which has not utilized its time on earth in accordance with His will and also gives it constant opportunities to ascend in the beyond. And thus even these souls can still reach a bright and happy state which, however, is different from that of a child of God. For a child of God also becomes a giver of strength, as it were, because it receives God's direct emanation within itself, because it is in closest contact with God, and it can now constantly distribute this strength since it is permeated by God's strength itself. To be a child of God means to be completely merged with Him, consequently also to be able to dispose of His power and strength .... Mankind does not realize what this means and therefore does not grasp the significance of life on earth, which can bring something unimaginably blissful to the soul and yet is mostly lived regardless of it .... The higher development which is still possible in the beyond is an act of God's greatest mercy, Who has given earthly life to the being for its final purification and higher development .... But Who, in His greater than great love, still enables beings whose will failed on earth to ascend in the beyond in order to give them happiness and light, yet still depending on the being's will. However, these beings cannot attain the bliss of a child of God unless they travel the path on earth once more if they are granted this grace by God which is linked to a task on earth .... Then the soul will have to struggle once again, although it will be protected from a complete relapse by the beings of light, because it must have reached a certain degree of maturity in the beyond before it will be granted this great grace through God's great love. The fulfilment of its task, which applies to the salvation of fellow human beings, can now earn it that degree of maturity on earth which makes it a child of God. Yet it is always left up to the soul's will as to how it utilizes the renewed granting of the grace of embodiment on earth ....

amen

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Childship to God .... Tremendous suffering on Earth ....

B.D. 3352 from December 1st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In order to gain childship on earth the human being must shape himself into love and thereby enable himself to already establish union with God on earth, so that he will enter the spheres of light in a completely mature state when he passes away from earth. Hence his soul must have become so purified through kind-hearted activity that God Himself can take abode in it and his spirit unites with the Father-spirit. In that case the human being will have fulfilled his task on earth completely and achieved his goal and, as a being of light, will have found entry into the spiritual realm, where it will subsequently create and work. However, this degree of maturity necessitates a complete renunciation of material possessions .... This fusion with the eternal Deity is impossible as long as a person still clings to matter, since his heart is not entirely cleansed from cravings and therefore not yet prepared for the acceptance of the divine spirit. Then the human being will have to accept much suffering in order to accomplish the soul's final refinement, and therefore much suffering will be imposed upon extremely benevolent and devout people so that the soul's refinement can take place. Where people are burdened by particularly harsh suffering and nevertheless profound faith is displayed, the soul might have chosen a particularly difficult life for itself in order to attain the final goal on earth, the childship to God. This goal must be aspired to and reached on earth and will always necessitate the most arduous living conditions, because the soul must enter the kingdom of the beyond completely pure and unadulterated and this calls for a particularly effective process of purification. Suffering is always the means of help in order to attain the spiritual goal .... It shall lead towards God if the soul is still disinclined towards God, or it shall purify and crystallise the soul, so that it can come close to God as the purest being in order to be able to enter into the most blissful union with Him. Suffering and love must always work together towards deifying a person on earth; consequently, a loving human being should not fear suffering but humbly take it upon himself bearing in mind the high goal he can reach on earth, for he has chosen his earthly path himself in realisation that it will help him attain highest maturity if his will does not offer resistance.

Nevertheless, the delights of the childship to God make up for all suffering in earthly life a thousand fold. And the time on earth is short, it is like a moment in the span of eternity .... And as soon as a person is profoundly faithful he also can always receive the strength from God to endure everything that is imposed upon him, for then he will send his heartfelt prayer to God and God Himself will give him strength and make him a conqueror of life on earth .... God Himself will fetch His child if it has passed its test of earthly life and departs from earth as a pure being .... But his life on earth will always be characterised by love and suffering, because without it the soul will not be totally purified for admitting God into the human being's heart. This heartfelt bond with God must already take place on earth, otherwise the soul will not stand firm against the temptations of the world nor would it achieve total purification through suffering because it would lack the strength to bear the latter without complaining, and all grumbling or resisting still indicates a lack of complete submission to God's will. However, the soul must become as one with God .... It must have the most intimate bond with Him, it must want the suffering itself and also gratefully accept it as a gift from God in realisation that it pulls down the last barriers between God and itself and that only an overcoming of them will result in the highest bliss .... to become a child of God with all rights and duties .... This is every person's goal on earth but only a few attain it. Only a few are in such intimate contact with God through love that even in suffering they recognise His greater than great Fatherly love which would provide them with the most blissful fate in eternity .... Their fate on earth is not an enviable one, yet in the kingdom of the beyond they occupy the highest level .... They are in God's immediate vicinity and therefore indescribably happy, for they can act independently according to their will, which is also always God's will .... They can create and shape and, time and again, contribute towards the redemption of that which, still being distant from God, requires the most varied creations in order to advance their development. And this is the most blissful fate which fully compensates and makes up for the suffering of earthly life and should therefore be all people's goal on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Path to perfection .... childhood of God ....

B.D. 5016 from December 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You can already reach perfection on earth if you voluntarily submit yourselves to Me, if you live according to My will, if you constantly move within divine order. Everything that is good corresponds to My will, but everything that is bad corresponds to the will of the opposite pole, which also influences you in order to make you submissive to its will. It is up to you yourselves to whom you want to submit yourselves; you are completely free, only the rightly used will leads to perfection, whereas otherwise you will be doomed to eternal death, a state of bondage in adversity and torment. Hence there is only one path to perfection .... a way of life according to My will, i.e. a way of life in love of your own free will. As soon as you make an effort in works of unselfish neighbourly love you will also live according to My will, and your soul will mature during your earthly life. Then the short earthly lifetime will suffice to reach a degree of maturity which will make it free from every bondage, thus suitable for the kingdom of light, which the soul can only enter if it is free from every cover impermeable to light. A soul's degree of maturity can still vary even then, but it is happy if it can inhabit the kingdom of light at all, where there is constant ascent and it can attain ever greater bliss. Yet even the highest bliss can earn it the short time of earthly life, as a true 'child of God' it can enter into fullest union with Me in order to never ever be separated from Me again and be able to enjoy the highest delights. This state of childship to God only requires a life of love on earth with utmost unselfishness, a constant striving towards Myself and intimate union with Me, which the human being establishes at all times if he works with love. The world must leave him completely untouched, he must accept suffering and affliction as My mission, his faith must be profound and unshakeable and his will must always bow to Mine .... he must always live with Me and let Me work within himself .... He must feel himself to be My child already on earth and love Me with all his heart .... Then he will also live entirely according to My will and depart from this earth as a true child of God. If you therefore know what you can achieve in the short time of earthly life, but how very few people make use of life for the salvation of their soul, then you can also imagine the state of remorse of the souls which neglected to make My will their own and now look back on a failed earthly life. For even My means of education often don't have much effect, and I cannot perfect the souls by forcing them. For this reason countless souls enter the kingdom of the beyond in a state of darkness and have to take an agonizing path there until they reach ascent, which, however, is far more difficult than on earth, where the strength of life is at their disposal to act according to their will, except that their will was wrongly directed. However, even in the spiritual kingdom the being's will remains free .... For this reason you humans should seriously work on yourselves so that you reach a degree of light which brings you realization, so that you will then safely ascend in the beyond and no longer have to fear the danger of sinking back into deepest darkness. You can achieve much on earth because strength and grace are at your disposal without limitation .... Use them and create a fund for eternity .... Live according to My will so that you can enter the kingdom of light, so that earthly life will not be lost for you ....

Amen

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Direct your senses spiritually ....

B.D. 5695 from June 11th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Direct your senses spiritually .... Everything that belongs to earth, that keeps you bound to earth, is worthless for eternity, but what you strive for spiritually remains with you and develops you upwards. Direct all your thoughts upwards towards God and only pay attention to earthly things to such an extent that you fulfil your duties, which will be all the less the more you try to win God and His kingdom. Learn to regard everything worldly as satan's work of deception, as it keeps you from striving upwards. You can certainly meet the demands earthly life places on you, for you will be granted assistance from the spiritual kingdom if you desire it first. Then earthly life will also fulfil itself, then everything will be managed in such a way that it will benefit your ascent development, for as soon as you only direct your senses spiritually you will also be granted support from the spiritual side. And in the last days before the end you humans should concern yourselves more than ever with thoughts of the other world, of the world you will enter after the death of your body and which you will prepare for yourselves through your will, through your life on this earth. For the end is near and not all people can expect a normal duration of their life, not all will experience or survive the end, many people will already be called away prematurely and be little prepared for the spiritual kingdom. And that is because they only live a purely worldly life, because they have no connection with the kingdom which lasts forever, where actual life only begins, but where death can also await the soul which did not strive for life on earth. And the admonition is addressed to these people: Remember your soul, for the body does not remain, but the soul cannot die, it remains and yet can be dead in spirit. Direct your senses spiritually, don't attach too much value to earthly life, recognize what you are when you have to leave all earthly things behind, and make sure that your soul will then shine in spiritual wealth, that it has acquired a life of strength and light, a life which lasts forever and is bliss ....

Amen

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Do not forfeit your eternal life ....

B.D. 7096 from April 18th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Do not forfeit your eternal life .... Admittedly, one day it will be granted to all of you, but eternities of infinite agony and darkness may still go by when you are in a state of death and entirely without strength and light. And you can prolong this agonizing time indefinitely so that you can indeed speak of 'eternal damnation' .... but which I have not given to you, instead you volitionally cause and continue to cause it yourselves if you fail to use your human existence to achieve eternal life for yourselves.

I will not let you be lost forever, because you are My living creations whom I loved from the start and will never cease to love either, but I cannot give life to you prematurely if you yourselves prefer the state of death, if you are unwilling to accept life from Me .... However, you can easily acquire it by merely entrusting yourselves to Me, Who is eternal life Himself ....

And for this purpose earthly life is given you, where you are in possession of intellect and free will, where you can accept instructions concerning your task on earth and thus you need only want to emerge from the state of death. And this time on earth is very short, no great sacrifices are expected of you considering what you shall receive if you use your will correctly. The lifespan of a human being is very brief indeed but it suffices to let you reach the goal ....

Yet your preliminary development took an infinitely long time until you were able to enter the stage of a human being .... And it will take an equally infinitely long time until you will receive the grace again to repeat your test of volition. The length of these infinite times is beyond your human comprehension since your thinking is limited in your imperfect state .... And just as you do not know of this agony, because retrospection of your preliminary development is taken from you during your earthly life, you do not know of the indescribable bliss either which is integral to the concept of 'eternal life' .... You do not know of the splendours awaiting you in My kingdom when you decide to finally return to Me .... And neither one nor the other information can be proven to you, since then it would be impossible to make a free decision of will.

But you should believe it even without proof and live your earthly life accordingly, you should not forfeit the bliss of a 'life' in My kingdom, you all should include this possibility in your intellectual consideration even if it seems implausible to you .... and you should live such that you need not reproach yourselves when the hour of your departure from this earth has arrived one day. You should also listen to those who talk about such things which are unrelated to the physical world .... And you should reflect on it and imagine how you would fare if they were right ....

There is too much at stake for you humans, it is not just a question of a few years like your lifetime on earth .... it concerns eternal life, it concerns the never-ending state of supreme blissfulness .... a state in light and strength that was yours in the beginning .... And for this eternity in light and strength you only need to renounce utterly worthless things for a very short time, for a 'moment' of this eternity .... But you value these things exceptionally high, and hence will forfeit 'life' and continue to remain in a state of death for an endless time again ....

And all I can do to help you attain life is to constantly send My messengers to you humans, who warn and remind you on My behalf, who should inspire you to try to arrive at the truth .... who point out to you that I, as the only Truth, enlighten your thoughts, who advise you to establish the connection with Me Myself, so that I can then seize and draw you to Myself .... But you have to take the first step, since I will not force you for the sake of your beatitude. But I will support and strengthen even the weakest will which turns to Me. I caused the entire creation to come into being in order to give you life.

I do not want your death, I want you to live and finally escape your state of death, which has already lasted for an infinite time .... I want to impart My love on you again and offer you a wonderful fate which will never end again .... But I cannot stop you from taking the path into the abyss once more if you volitionally follow My adversary again who once had taken your life and delivered you unto death. I can only ever call to you again 'Do not forfeit your eternal life .... ' but you have to follow My call voluntarily, you have to endeavour to achieve life while you live on earth, and I truly will help you achieve it because I love you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious warning before the end ....

B.D. 5814 from November 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Consider the seriousness of the time in which you live, which will soon come to an end and which will be followed by a time of unlimited bliss but also of greatest torment and darkness .... You yourselves prepare one of these two states, you yourselves choose bliss or torment, you yourselves shape your fate in the time to come according to your way of life in the present. You should seriously consider this and then live in such a way that you can only look forward to the coming time in joyful expectation; you should not close your ears when the knowledge of what will happen in the coming time is conveyed to you; you should think about it and draw the consequences; you should be aware of your soul's responsibility to which you prepare the fate when your body has ended its life. Do not live thoughtlessly and carelessly into the day, where the life of the soul is at stake .... Don't let the life and well-being of your body be your greatest concern but think about what will come afterwards .... which is incredibly close to you: earthly death and .... if you humans don't change .... spiritual death, which means the same fate in torment and darkness. What can still happen for your salvation happens because I want to save you humans from this spiritual death, from endless banishment in a fixed form .... Yet I cannot determine your free will, I can only repeatedly point out to you the danger of a wrong way of life and urgently advise you to listen to My words and think about them. The clock is about to run out and you will still be accepted by Me at the last minute .... But don't let this last minute pass by unused, don't throw all admonitions and warnings to the wind, but imagine that tomorrow can already be your last day, and now create and work accordingly .... And you will be eternally grateful to Me if you once recognize the fate I wanted to save you from, the dreadful fate you escaped .... Believe that only My love for you determines Me to send you My messengers. Believe that I don't want to take anything from you but only give you an unspeakable amount, and don't resist My love .... Just open your eyes and ears and consciously experience everything that happens around you .... And you will recognize the truth of My word and awaken and then do everything to save your soul from destruction ....

Amen

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